On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 1:28 PM, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote: > A few users have noticed (and complained) that setting sys.ps1 and sys.ps2 > *in the batch mode user process* has no effect. The Idle doc should better > explain why this is and should be. User code should not affect the > operation of Idle. Idle is separately configured through dialogs.
As I understand it, setting them has *absolutely* no effect, currently, right? There's no situation in which it would be useful to set them? In that case, it might be useful to put some magic in there (although I'm not sure it's possible; can't use @property at top level in a module) that gives a notification - pointing users to the dialog. No idea how you'd go about it, but telling someone when what s/he does is useless can be helpful. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
