[Python-3000] Low-hanging fruit: change interpreter prompt?

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Sun Dec 3 00:56:40 CET 2006


Guido van Rossum wrote:
> The deficiencies of email shouldn't be dictating the language.

The interpreter prompt is hardly part of the language,
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").

--
Greg


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