[Python-ideas] Move more parts of interpreter core to stdlib

[Draic Kin]

On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 10:11 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net>wrote:

> Le Mon, 26 Aug 2013 21:57:50 +0200,
> Draic Kin <drekin at gmail.com> a écrit :
> > > The one thing that may be considered is whether there is a point in
> > > having two versions of the interactive prompt: the default one in C,
> > > and a re-usable Python one in code.py.
> > >
> > > There are also subtle differences between the two. E.g. whether to
> > > write
> > the prompt to stdout or stderr, how to behave when attributes sys.ps1,
> > sys.ps2 are missing, and of course whether to get input from
> > sys.stdin or the standard STDIN.
>
> Yes... But I'm not sure those differences were intended in the first
> place. IMO it would make sense to smooth them out.
> (there's a lot of historical baggage that could explain the
> discrepancies)
>

I definitely agree that they should be smoothed out, I was just pointing
them out.
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