Ned Deily added the comment:
As Wim notes, that behavior is documented. So, until someone wants to provide
an enhancement patch, we should close this issue. Sorry!
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nosy: +ned.deily
resolution: -> not a bug
stage: -> resolved
status: open -> closed
wim glenn added the comment:
Seems to be as documented here:
https://docs.python.org/2/library/pdb.html#debugger-commands
"No intelligence is applied to separating the commands; the input is split at
the first ;; pair, even if it is in the middle of a quoted string."
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nosy:
New submission from Chris Withers:
This doesn't seem right:
(Pdb) ';;'
*** SyntaxError: EOL while scanning string literal
*** SyntaxError: EOL while scanning string literal
(Pdb) p ';;'
*** SyntaxError: EOL while scanning string literal
*** SyntaxError: EOL while scanning string literal
(Pdb)