_ip.runlines() is now much more liberal about indentation - it cleans up the scripts it gets

IPython/ipapi.py

@@ -263,11 +263,36 b' class IPApi:'
         
         Takes either all lines in one string or list of lines.
         """
+
+        def cleanup_ipy_script(script):
+            """ Make a script safe for _ip.runlines() 
+            
+            - Removes empty lines
+            - Suffixes all indented blocks that end with unindented lines with empty lines
+            
+            """
+            res = []
+            lines = script.splitlines()
+            level = 0
+            for l in lines:
+                stripped = l.lstrip()
+                if not l.strip():
+                    continue
+                newlevel = len(l) - len(stripped)
+                if level > 0 and newlevel == 0:
+                    # add empty line
+                    res.append('')
+                res.append(l)
+                level = newlevel
+            return '\n'.join(res) + '\n'
+        
         if isinstance(lines,basestring):
-            self.IP.runlines(lines)
+            script = lines            
         else:
-            self.IP.runlines('\n'.join(lines))
+            script = '\n'.join(lines)
+        clean=cleanup_ipy_script(script)
 
+        self.IP.runlines(clean)
     def to_user_ns(self,vars, interactive = True):
         """Inject a group of variables into the IPython user namespace.
 
@@ -568,3 +593,4 b' def make_session(user_ns = None):'
     import IPython.Shell
     return IPython.Shell.start(user_ns)
 
+

test/test_ipapi.py

@@ -2,14 +2,34 b' import sys'
 sys.path.append('..')
 
 import IPython.ipapi
-
 IPython.ipapi.make_session()
 ip = IPython.ipapi.get()
 
 def test_runlines():
+    import textwrap
     ip.runlines(['a = 10', 'a+=1'])
-    ip.runlines('assert a == 11')
+    ip.runlines('assert a == 11\nassert 1')
+
     assert ip.user_ns['a'] == 11
+    complex = textwrap.dedent("""\
+    if 1:
+        print "hello"
+        if 1:
+            print "world"
+        
+    if 1:
+        print "foo"
+    if 1:
+        print "bar"
+
+    if 1:
+        print "bar"
+    
+    """)
+
+    
+    ip.runlines(complex)
+    
 
 def test_db():
     ip.db['__unittest_'] = 12