Another strange input handling error

[wesm]

Getting this both on 0.12 and git master

In [1]: baz = None

In [2]: timeit foo = baz.groupby(lambda x: x.split('#')[0])
  File "<magic-timeit>", line 6
    foo = baz.groupby(lambda x: x.split('
                                        ^
SyntaxError: EOL while scanning string literal

[takluyver]

I think this is due to the code trying to parse the command-line style syntax for magic functions. It has trouble when the argument to the magic command is Python code.

[ivanov]

I'm looking into this, just wrote a test of Wes' example. Here's a simpler (still failing) test: timeit ('#')
Narrowed it down to the posix=False flag of magic.py:1875 -- setting it to True doesn't cause this error.

This bug is related to #1109

[ivanov]

@wesm as temporary workaround, adding a space before '#' should allow you to continue to do timing

[fperez]

Great, thanks @ivanov !

[wesm]

thanks guys