Bug handling Ellipsis #3061
Description
In [1]: Ellipsis is ...
Out[1]: True
In [2]: (...)
Out[2]: Ellipsis
In [3]: ...
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
AttributeError Traceback (most recent call last)
/usr/lib/python3.3/site-packages/IPython/core/prefilter.py in prefilter_lines(self, lines, continue_prompt)
359 for lnum, line in enumerate(llines) ])
360 else:
--> 361 out = self.prefilter_line(llines[0], continue_prompt)
362
363 return out
/usr/lib/python3.3/site-packages/IPython/core/prefilter.py in prefilter_line(self, line, continue_prompt)
326 if not stripped:
327 if not continue_prompt:
--> 328 self.shell.displayhook.prompt_count -= 1
329
330 return normal_handler.handle(line_info)
AttributeError: can't set attribute
The normal Python shell handles this properly:
>>> Ellipsis is ...
True
>>> (...)
Ellipsis
>>> ...
Ellipsis