bpo-38673: dont switch to ps2 if the line starts with comment or whitespace (GH-17421...

https://bugs.python.org/issue38673
(cherry picked from commit 109fc2792a490ee5cd8a423e17d415fbdedec5c8)

Co-authored-by: Batuhan Taşkaya <47358913+isidentical@users.noreply.github.com>

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-12-01-00-17-44.bpo-38673.K_Tze-.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-12-01-00-17-44.bpo-38673.K_Tze-.rst
new file mode 100644 (file)
index 0000000..8f8cf88
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-12-01-00-17-44.bpo-38673.K_Tze-.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+In REPL mode, don't switch to PS2 if the line starts with comment or whitespace. Based on work by Batuhan Taşkaya.

diff --git a/Parser/tokenizer.c b/Parser/tokenizer.c
index d720f19eca9db811681df25c1f2f970dc51bc360..1739bb7ad5565013e58fbe822705294e0f3b926f 100644 (file)
--- a/Parser/tokenizer.c
+++ b/Parser/tokenizer.c
@@ -1395,6 +1395,12 @@ tok_get(struct tok_state *tok, char **p_start, char **p_end)
             if (col == 0 && c == '\n' && tok->prompt != NULL) {
                 blankline = 0; /* Let it through */
             }
+            else if (tok->prompt != NULL && tok->lineno == 1) {
+                /* In interactive mode, if the first line contains
+                   only spaces and/or a comment, let it through. */
+                blankline = 0;
+                col = altcol = 0;
+            }
             else {
                 blankline = 1; /* Ignore completely */
             }