Run Selected Text in Active Terminal gives IndentationError with IPython

Environment data

• VS Code version: 1.40.2
• Extension version (available under the Extensions sidebar): 2019.11.50794
• OS and version: macOS Catalina 10.15.1
• Python version (& distribution if applicable, e.g. Anaconda): 3.7.5 Anaconda defaults
• Type of virtual environment used (N/A | venv | virtualenv | conda | …): conda
• Relevant/affected Python packages and their versions: XXX
• Jedi or Language Server? (i.e. what is "python.jediEnabled" set to; more info #3977): Language Server

Expected behaviour

Selecting some text and running the command “Terminal: Run Selected Text In Active Terminal” properly pastes the selection to an IPython console.

Actual behaviour

IndentationError is received.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Launch IPython in the built-in terminal. Then open some file in the editor; type and select

for x in range(3):
    print(x)
    break

1. Execute the command “Terminal: Run Selected Text in Active Terminal”

The following error is received:

In [1]: for x in range(3): 
   ...:         print(x) 
   ...:             break                                                                              
  File "<ipython-input-1-6c59f84e067e>", line 3
    break
    ^
IndentationError: unexpected indent

Logs

Output for Python in the Output panel (View→Output, change the drop-down the upper-right of the Output panel to Python)

No output

Output from Console under the Developer Tools panel (toggle Developer Tools on under Help; turn on source maps to make any tracebacks be useful by running Enable source map support for extension debugging)

No output

[nicks515]

Try to toggle ipython’s %autoindent into OFF.

https://ipython.org/ipython-doc/3/interactive/reference.html#autoindent

Autoindent is ON by default, but it can cause problems with the pasting of multi-line indented code (the pasted code gets re-indented on each line). A magic function %autoindent allows you to toggle it on/off at runtime. You can also disable it permanently on in your ipython_config.py file (set TerminalInteractiveShell.autoindent=False).

The above is out of date, but useful. For ipython_config.py creation, refer to the latest ipython documentation link below. https://ipython.readthedocs.io/en/stable/config/intro.html#python-configuration-files

[ericsnowcurrently]

Ah, thanks for the clarification. We’ll look into this further.