Pasting multiple lines into IDLE

Question

Is there a way to paste a block of code into IDLE? Pasting line by line works, but sometimes I'd like to paste many lines at once. When I try, IDLE reads the first line and ignores the rest.

>>> a = 1 b = 2 c = 3  >>>  >>> a 1 >>> b  Traceback (most recent call last):   File "<pyshell#3>", line 1, in <module>     b NameError: name 'b' is not defined 

Answer 1

Probably not the most beautiful procedure, but this works:

cmds = ''' 

paste your commands, followed by ''':

a = 1 b = 2 c = 3 ''' 

Then exec(cmds) will execute them.

Or more directly,

exec(''' 

then paste your commands, followed by '''):

a = 1 b = 2 c = 3 ''') 

It's just a trick, maybe there's a more official, elegant way.