From: Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 01:32:24 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: SF patch #751038 fixing SF bug#750092: exec doesn't need newline
X-Git-Tag: v2.3c1~386
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=96a8233b649d0eb9edef25ac4511720964742764;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

SF patch #751038 fixing SF bug#750092: exec doesn't need newline

Patch contributed by Steven Taschuk.
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diff --git a/Doc/ref/ref6.tex b/Doc/ref/ref6.tex
index a078aa4cae7f..c6ff655e5b5b 100644
--- a/Doc/ref/ref6.tex
+++ b/Doc/ref/ref6.tex
@@ -896,11 +896,5 @@ for use by \keyword{exec}.
 \bifuncindex{globals}
 \bifuncindex{locals}
 
-Also, in the current implementation, multi-line compound statements must
-end with a newline:
-\code{exec "for v in seq:\e{}n\e{}tprint v\e{}n"} works, but
-\code{exec "for v in seq:\e{}n\e{}tprint v"} fails with
-\exception{SyntaxError}.
-\exindex{SyntaxError}