I am on Mac OS X (10.14.3) using a text editor (Sublime Text 3) and, in a different window, a Terminal window running python (3.7) interpreter.
The code I copying from Sublime (using cmd+c) is
def count_numbers():
for i in range(10):
if i % 3 == 0 :
print (i)
count_numbers()
But the output I get when I copy paste into the terminal (I included the command to open the python interpreter) is:
$ python
Python 3.7.2 (default, Dec 30 2018, 08:55:50)
[Clang 10.0.0 (clang-1000.11.45.5)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
[here is where I press cmd + v]
>>> def count_numbers():
... return a * x + b
... z=[invcdf(random()) for i in range(10)]
File "<stdin>", line 3
z=[invcdf(random()) for i in range(10)]
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>>> if t2 is None:
File "<stdin>", line 1
if t2 is None:
^
IndentationError: unexpected indent
>>> # print (i)
...
>>> count_numbers()
This other mixed-up code is from some python I was writing yesterday. Since then I have used copy/paste countless times, so I don't understand why my recent copy (cmd + v) is channeling yesterday's work complete with apparent indentation errors, bits of today's code, and so on.
Typing command+shift+v is no better: just different garbage.
What on earth is going on?
Mac OS X : 10.14.3
python installed by MacPorts
Tkinter not installed: I don't like IDLE.
OK,
finally worked out that the pboard process was corrupted.
best way to fix is to kill the pboard process in activity monitor or terminal
using
All working well now.