A couple of hopefully short (interrelated) questions: 1) is there a way to suppress the banner when starting Python interactively? Something like a "--quiet" that would just drop you straight to a prompt? I like to use Python as a nuclear-powered calculator, and am working on a couple little projects where it would be quite handy to suppress the banner version/help information (namely, if it gets piped to a text-to-speech front end, the less noise the better)
2) is there a way to change the two prompts from ">>>" and "..." to other options? Namely, again with the TTS option, something that is more TTS friendly than hearing "greater-than greater-than greater-than". The "dot dot dot" isn't nearly as bad. I'm not sure what sorts of queries to google for to find this out. I've tried things like site:python.org changing interactive interpreter prompt -idle and site:python.org suppress start-up banner site:python.org banner interactive along with a few such variants, and had no results that seemed to be what I wanted. Short of editing CPython source, is there something I've overlooked? Some command-line option that doesn't get listed in "python -h" or an environment variable? Thanks, -tkc -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list