Indentation issue when defining python functions in the console of Rstudio using reticulate::repl_python()

Question

I am using Rstudio (2022.02.2 Build 485) and reticulate::repl_python() to run Python (3.10), see link.

The problem is that the console does not seem to deal with defining functions properly:

>>> for i in globals().keys():
...     if not i.startswith('_'):
...         exec('del ' + i)
...

>>> def excel_to_pandas(URL, local_path):
...     resp = requests.get(URL)
...     with open(local_path, 'wb') as output:
...         output.write(resp.content)
...     df = pd.read_excel(local_path)
...     return df
...     
...     
...     print(excel_to_pandas(url_area, os. getcwd()))
...

It acts like the function is unfinished. They run fine when running from script. Does anyone have an idea what causes this and how this issue can be circumvented?