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gh-145694: Update tutorial indentation guidance for PyREPL auto-indent#145725
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…-indentThe tutorial stated users must manually type tabs/spaces at the interactiveprompt, which is no longer accurate since the PyREPL in Python 3.13+auto-indents after compound statement headers. Updated to mention boththe default REPL behavior and the basic REPL fallback.Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Fixes#145694
Summary
The tutorial page "An Informal Introduction to Python" stated that users must manually type tabs/spaces for indentation at the interactive prompt. Since Python 3.13, the default PyREPL auto-indents after compound statement headers like
ifandwhile, making this guidance misleading.Updated the text to mention that the default REPL auto-indents, while noting the basic REPL (
PYTHON_BASIC_REPL) and older versions still require manual indentation.Test plan
PYTHON_BASIC_REPLenvvar correctly using:envvar:roleThis contribution was developed with AI assistance (Claude Code).
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