Is hilarious mistake in Python design. Thanks @elfprince13.
```python
def x():
e = None
while e is None:
try: print(input("? "))
except Exception as e: print(repr(e))
x()
```
Result:
```
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "<stdin>", line 3, in x
UnboundLocalError: local variable 'e' referenced before assignment
```
@ambihelical @freemo By "plain text mode" mean "not Markdown mode"? I don't have a problem with prepending four spaces to each line (that's standard Markdown, fenced code blocks are a common extension) but that didn't keep the buggy implementation from eating my newlines.
Let's try four spaces:
def main():
pass
@ambihelical @freemo See, there was a newline after the colon, but got eaten. Inspecting the page DOM shows that there's a `<pre>` and a somewhat unnecessary but harmless `<code>` inside it, but the actual text node in the DOM has no newline in it.
@radehi @freemo
FWIW The only way I got the listing to format correctly posting to myself was 1) post in plain text mode 2) in markdown mode, prepend 4 spaces to each line (which sucks, obviously)
4 backticks didn't work. code tag didn't work.