SyntaxError multiple statements found while compiling a single statement

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I m in Python 3 3 and I m only entering these 3 lines   import sklearn as sk import numpy as np import matplotlib pyplot as plt   I m getting this error   SyntaxError  multiple statements found while compiling a single statement   What could I be doing wrong   Edit  If anyone comes across this question  the solution I found was to download Idlex and use its IDLE version  which allows multiple lines    Screenshot  http   imgur com AJSrhhD

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In the shell  you can t execute more than one statement at a time    gt  gt  gt  x   5 y   6 SyntaxError  multiple statements found while compiling a single statement   You need to execute them one by one    gt  gt  gt  x   5  gt  gt  gt  y   6  gt  gt  gt    When you see multiple statements are being declared  that means you re seeing a script  which will be executed later  But in the interactive interpreter  you can t do more than one statement at a time

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A  partial  practical work-around is to put things into a throw-away function  Pasting x   1 x    1 print x   results in  gt  gt  gt  x   1 x    1 print x    File  quot  lt stdin gt  quot   line 1     x    1 print x         SyntaxError  multiple statements found while compiling a single statement  gt  gt  gt   However  pasting def abc      x   1   x    1   print x   works   gt  gt  gt  def abc      x   1   x    1   print x   gt  gt  gt  abc   2  gt  gt  gt   Of course  this is OK for a quick one-off  won t work for everything you might want to do  etc  But then  going to ipython   jupyter qtconsole is probably the next simplest option

[python] SyntaxError: multiple statements found while compiling a single statement

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