I must be bored tonight. I have to confess that when copying and pasting from the interpreter into a plain text email, I often find it cluttered to confusing by all the ">>>..." that can result from nested quoting. So I poked around on the Internet and found that I can temporarily change the prompt symbol using sys.ps1. My initial trials are:
Python 3.5.1 (v3.5.1:37a07cee5969, Dec 6 2015, 01:54:25) [MSC v.1900 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import sys >>> sys.ps1 = '=>' =>sys.ps1 = chr(26) →sys.ps1 = chr(16) ► I personally like the last of these. My question is, will this show up as a black, filled-in arrowhead pointing to the right on everyone's email? I have yet to delve into Unicode display issues, but I have vague recollections that the old ASCII table values might not always display the same thing from one person's display to another one's. Is this correct? And a related question: I often have the IDLE version of the Python shell open. How can I make this sort of change for IDLE? I have done some Googling on this as well, but haven't found the right search query yet. I also poked into some of the idlelib files, but so far the only ">>>" I've found have been in specialized displays like IDLE debug. TIA! -- boB _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor