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[Bug 1315733] Re: Python interactive interpreter does not indent with tabs, tries to tab-complete

 

Oops, meant to include a different link in that last comment:
http://bugs.python.org/issue22086

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Title:
  Python interactive interpreter does not indent with tabs, tries to
  tab-complete

Status in “python3.4” package in Ubuntu:
  Won't Fix
Status in “python3.4” package in Debian:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Using the python3 interactive interpreter, I can not use tabs to
  indent like I could on previous versions of Ubuntu (13.10 was what I
  was using before, now I'm using 14.04).

  When I try to indent on the python interpreter command line, it simply
  does nothing the first time I press the tab key. The second time I
  press it, it shows a bunch of autocomplete suggestions.

  For example
  >>> if (True):
  ... <tab>print("true!")
    File "<stdin>", line 2
      print("true!")
          ^
  IndentationError: expected an indented block

  Could this be related to http://bugs.python.org/issue18988? Is the fix
  for that included in the version of python on 14.04?

  I also found http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4809820/tab-key-not-
  indenting-in-python, in which one of the comments to an answer
  suggests trying <Ctrl-V><tab> when you want to insert a tab. That does
  work for me:

  >>> if (True):
  ... <Ctrl-V><tab>print("true")
  ... 
  true

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: python3 3.4.0-0ubuntu2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-24.46-generic 3.13.9
  Uname: Linux 3.13.0-24-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia zfs zunicode zavl zcommon znvpair
  ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Sat May  3 11:36:57 2014
  SourcePackage: python3-defaults
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-04-19 (14 days ago)

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