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Michael Erb
Michael Erb

Reputation: 129

Can't copy multiple lines into command-line python

Sometimes, when developing python code, I open a script in gedit and copy chunks of code into the python command line on Linux. This used to work just fine. For example, here are two commands which I copied together:

import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

Today, however, I am getting the following error when I try to copy and execute multiple lines together:

SyntaxError: multiple statements found while compiling a single statement

This did not used to happen. Another difference is that my commands are highlighted white when I paste them into python. I feel like I must be missing something obvious. Any idea why I can't execute multiple lines together?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2403

Answers (2)

Ture Pålsson
Ture Pålsson

Reputation: 6786

This smells like it has something to do with "bracketed paste mode", especially with that highlighting going on. From a distance I can't tell what or how, though. Possibly related to this issue: https://bugs.python.org/issue42819 .

Upvotes: 2

Jacob Lee
Jacob Lee

Reputation: 4700

When you are trying to run code in the Python shell, you can only run one line of code (more specifically, one statement) at a time. You would have to execute each import statement individually.

Upvotes: 0

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