Python Console (with ActiveState Python) - Issue with multinline strings input

[jjarava]

Hi!

Commercial user of Komodo version (latest):

In the Console, when trying to add a multi-line string of the form:

>>> txt1="""BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID="Europe/Madrid":"""

I get an error and the variable is not initialized.

txt1="""BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID="Europe/Madrid":  File "<console>", line 1
    BEGIN:VEVENT
         ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

I get an error and the variable is not initialized.

I can make it somewhat work if the line is the 3 "commas" and then I paste the rest:

txt2="""
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID="Europe/Madrid":
"""

but it's klunkier and I get an extra \n at the beginning of the string.

Same thing with Idle works fine in both formats:

Issue in Komodo:

Works in IDLE:

[Naatan]

I cannot reproduce this, seems alright to me?

[jjarava]

Platform-specific issue?

I'm using ActivePython 2.7.8.10 on OSX (10.9.5) vs your case that is 2.7. on Linux?

[jjarava]

Even more odd...

If I copy and paste the whole "line":

txt1=BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID="Europe/Madrid":"""

on the editor it works -- BUT if I start typing the beginning:

txt1="""

And then I PASTE the other 2 lines of data following the """

BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID="Europe/Madrid":"""

THEN is when I get the error in the Editor.

I've done the same test on IDLE and on the "command line" python interactive interpreter and in both places it works.

[Naatan]

@cgchoffman can you repro this on windows?

[th3coop]

Yes, this is easy to repro on Windows.
You can simplify it a bit more by just starting with the triple quote then pasting in additional lines and the closing triple quote.

"""blah #start

then past in

blah
blah
""""

It seems it's interpreting new lines as carridge returns rather than just a char (eg."\n").

[mitchell-as]

Fixed via https://github.com/Komodo/KomodoIDE/commit/0480dc336ead80f77d2aa45d0777156478795f4a