[Feature] Be able to paste multiple lines at once at the >>> prompt

[alankilborn]

Consider these lines of text in a Notepad++ tab:

a=3
b=4
c=5

I'd like to be able to select these lines, copy them via Ctrl+c, move input focus to the PythonScript console window's >>> prompt box, and paste via Ctrl+v, with the intention that when I press Enter after that, all three of these lines would be executed, one after the other.

Currently when I attempt to paste those lines, all that gets placed in the prompt box is a=3.

Behavior current to the 3.019 pre-release.

[Ekopalypse]

And I assume that the prompt field should be empty afterwards and have the input focus?

[alankilborn]

And I assume that the prompt field should be empty afterwards and have the input focus?

Well, someone (Yaron10, I believe) came up with "interesting" behavior for what should appear in the prompt box and when, and it was adopted, but IMO it is fubared, so... I don't know how to answer your question. :-)

EDIT: But the >>> box should have input focus afterward

[Ekopalypse]

But it is your feature request and from my point of view something completely different than writing something manually in the prompt box, so I think this can/should work according to your own criteria. From my point of view, I would use this kind of mechanism if I want to test something against constant values, but don't want to run the script over and over again, just the function that manipulates those values.

[alankilborn]

It's a minor feature request, I guess. I probably made the request when I wanted to do exactly what the opening comment of this issue says.

In general, I think the >>> box input has bigger problems. I cringe whenever I do something where the Python interpreter thinks I need to supply a second line to something.