[FIXED] Indent rules in verbatim strings

Issue

I'm trying to copy-paste and run python code which basically looks like this:

mycode = """
    def f():
        print("f called")

    f()
"""

eval(mycode)

And getting error

  File "<string>", line 2
    def f():
    ^
IndentationError: unexpected indent

If I change indent like

mycode = """
def f():
    print("f called")

f()
"""

Then I'm getting error

  File "<string>", line 2
    def f():
      ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Is it a broken code I'm trying to run, or I can fix this somehow? Original code is supposed to be runnable "as is", without any modifications.

I tried this in IPython 3.6.0

Solution

You cannot define a function in an eval, which is for expressions.

Use exec:

>>> mycode = """
... def f():
...   print("f called")
...
... f()
... """
>>> exec(mycode)
f called

Answered By - jjmontes