The question's title tells it; I'm reading a book and I'd like to try the code on the fly using IPython but all the code is structured like this:
right = DataFrame({'key1': ['foo', 'foo', 'bar', 'bar'],
....: 'key2': ['one', 'one', 'one', 'two'],
....: 'rval': [4, 5, 6, 7]})
I'd like to copy it directly from the book inside the terminal but even using %paste I receive an Invalid Syntax error. I could use %cpaste but for longer inputs it is kind of frustrating.
Thanks for your help
So it should work, but you need to be sure that when pasting the ....: are well aligned. Meaning that you need to copy carefully.
The following should work for instance :
right = DataFrame({'key1': ['foo', 'foo', 'bar', 'bar'],
....: 'key2': ['one', 'one', 'one', 'two'],
....: 'rval': [4, 5, 6, 7]})
Or this one too (where we see the alignment with the semi column of In []: :
In [68]: a = [1,
....: 2,
....: 3]
My guess that if you cannot copy better than you did, is that the book did a bad formatting when pasting. If so, you still can open a basic text editor and find and replace ....: with nothing.
Instead of opening an issue, it should be more probably related to a feature of the %paste function which implement something that deals with bad indentation, but then it starts being messy, IMO.
Hope this helps.
...: if one can't copy past afterward.
..., but not ipython's....:. So changing the prompts to...would work. But that's probably not an option for you.