sys.ps2 assignment has no effect

[Lance]

Thanks Alex.. it's with IDLE. That explains things.

Lance

"Alex Martelli" <aleax at aleax.it> wrote in message
news:FQqj9.149901$pX1.5369568 at news2.tin.it...
> Lance wrote:
>
> > I'm running the latest Python on Windows XP. The default installed
> > secondary string appears to be blank spaces rather than an ellipse. The
> > following has no effect:
> >
> > import sys
> > sys.ps2 = '... '
> >
> > Any suggestions?
>
> Is this with the text-mode interactive Python (which would
> surprise me, as I've run the latest Python on XP w/o such
> problems), or with IDLE or other such IDE?  IDLE does not
> use PS2, afaik (it always uses spaces instead) and other IDEs
> might do likewise.
>
>
> Alex
>