paste

%paste:
    Paste & execute a pre-formatted code block from clipboard.

Similar to %cpaste, %paste allows you to paste a copied block of text properly into the shell, and it automatically handles any indentation differences, and ignores the > and + characters that may be present in e-mails, diffs, doctests, or code samples.

Unlike %cpaste, once you execute %paste, it automatically pastes and executes the block, so there is no further editing involved. It does however assign a variable to the pasted block, which is aptly named pasted_block, so you can then later edit it, e.g. %edit pasted_block. You can override this variable name by passing in a variable name directly:

%paste my_cool_code