mdipierro wrote this on Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 08:01:35AM -0800. My
reply is below.
> now consider this working code
> exec("""print 'abc\ncde'""")
I don't believe that works to begin with. I assume you expect the
output to be:
>>> abc
>>> cde
... but what I get from python.2.4.4 is:
>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>> File "./test.py", line 28, in ?
>>> exec("""print 'abc\ncde'""")
>>> File "<string>", line 1
>>> print 'abc
>>> ^
>>> SyntaxError: EOL while scanning single-quoted string
This is before tidying up.
Can you provide a different example?
*PythonTidy* tries to preserve literals from the original script.
However, it may resort to transliteration if more than one literal has
the same evaluation. Perhaps you had a different literal in your code
before *PythonTidy* got ahold of it.
Also, running statements through *eval* can result in desirable
effects even though the arguments don't look like well-formed Python
code. For example, you can do string substitution in the *eval*
statement. *PythonTidy* doesn't see the arguments as code in their
own right, so it shouldn't interfere with them; nevertheless, IIRC,
use of *eval* is one of the perverse reasons that some Python
test-suite examples can't be tidied up.
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