Copy-paste into Python interactive interpreter and indentation

Question

This piece of code, file test.py,

if 1:
   print \"foo\"
print \"bar\"

can be successfully executed with execfile(\"test.py\

Answer 1

All of the current answers suggest you change to IPython. For a Python-only solution, you can use textwrap to remove leading whitespace from lines.

For example,

>>> code="""    x='your pasted code'
                y='with common indentation'"""
>>> formatted=textwrap.dedent(code)
>>> exec(formatted)