Eryk Sun added the comment: The error you're getting indicates that stdin is set to binary mode for some reason. You can see this using the -u command line option:
C:\>py -2 -u Python 2.7.10 (default, May 23 2015, 09:44:00) [MSC v.1500 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> a = 0 File "<stdin>", line 1 a = 0 ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax By any chance do you have PYTHONUNBUFFERED set in the environment? ---------- nosy: +eryksun type: crash -> behavior _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue26400> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com