[Python-ideas] Show deprecation warnings in the interactive interpreter

[Paul Moore]

On 26 February 2015 at 16:15,  <random832 at fastmail.us> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2015, at 19:47, Terry Reedy wrote:
>> People often experiment with files in editors when writing statements
>> longer than a line or two or when writing multiple statements.  Leaving
>> that aside, people also experiment at *simulated* interactive prompts in
>> guis, such as Idle, that run on Python in normal batch mode.  In either
>> case, changing interactive mode python will have no effect and no
>> benefit.
>
> Well obviously another change would have to be made to Idle.
>
> Your argument seems to boil down to "no-one uses the prompt", so why not
> just get rid of it?

I use the prompt pretty much all the time (and yes, that's on Windows
- I imagine a lot of Unix users use the prompt :-))
Paul