Greg Ewing wrote:
> Guido van Rossum wrote:
>> The deficiencies of email shouldn't be dictating the language.
>
> The interpreter prompt is hardly part of the language,
Except that the doctest module and the prevalence of interactive prompt
snippets in the documentation mean that it *is* effectively part of at least
the standard library, even if not the language proper.
> and I don't think it would be unreasonable to make a
> small change here to avoid unnecessarily conflicting
> with a well-established convention (I wouldn't call
> it a "deficiency").
True, but the workaround to align the two conventions if you work with email a
lot (i.e., including "sys.ps1 = '.>>> '" or similar in your PYTHONSTARTUP
script) is simple enough that it just doesn't seem worth the hassle of
changing all the doctests and various other bits of documentation to reflect a
new default interactive prompt.
All a somewhat moot discussion though, given that Guido has explicitly stated
that *he* wants to leave it alone, and he wins as the BDFL* :)
Cheers,
Nick.
*Bikeshed Discussion Finishing Leader, perhaps? ;)
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