Re: [Jython-users] Newbie problems

[Kevin B. <kb...@ca...>]

Brad Cox wrote:
 > Thanks. But """ doesn't work either....

This appears to be a bug in the parser in Jython's interactive interpreter:

Jython 2.1 on java1.3.1_02 (JIT: null)
Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
 >>> """hello
Traceback (innermost last):
  (no code object) at line 0
  File "<console>", line 2
SyntaxError: Lexical error at line 2, column 0.  Encountered: <EOF> 
after : ""
 >>> print """hello
Traceback (innermost last):
  (no code object) at line 0
  File "<console>", line 2
SyntaxError: Lexical error at line 2, column 0.  Encountered: <EOF> 
after : ""
 >>> def go():
...    print """Hello
Traceback (innermost last):
  (no code object) at line 0
  File "<console>", line 3
SyntaxError: Lexical error at line 3, column 0.  Encountered: <EOF> 
after : ""
 >>> ^Z

In contrast, with CPython:

PYTHON:/e/work/cp$ python
Python 2.2 (#28, Dec 21 2001, 12:21:22) [MSC 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
 >>> """Hello
... world"""
'Hello\nworld'
 >>> ^Z

If you create & execute a file, they both work identically:

PYTHON:d:/temp$ cat >> hello.py
print """Hello
world"""
PYTHON:d:/temp$ jython hello.py
Hello
world
PYTHON:d:/temp$ python hello.py
Hello
world
PYTHON:d:/temp$

kb