[Idle-dev] The '>>> ' prompt is bad

Alan Gauld alan.gauld at btinternet.com
Thu Jun 21 10:39:33 CEST 2012


On 21/06/12 02:16, Roger Serwy wrote:

> I could write a patch to allow ps2 prompts if there's any serious interest.

I would love that.

This is one of the most common issues I get from users of my web 
tutorial. At least one email per month from beginners confused by IDLEs 
indentation. If they are on Windows I just tell them to use  Pythonwin 
but on MacOS/Linux it's not so easy.


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Alan G
Author of the Learn to Program web site
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