Starting Python from the terminal with no welcome message

[candide]

Hi,

Does exist some option I could send to the python interpreter during an
interactive session in order to avoid the printing of the  introductory
message just above the top prompt ?

In my case, the welcome message is the following :

Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Jul 31 2008, 17:28:52)
[GCC 4.2.3 (Ubuntu 4.2.3-2ubuntu7)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.



gdb has such an option (the so-called quiet option).


Compare this :

$ gdb
GNU gdb 6.8-debian
Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later
<http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.  Type "show copying"
and "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "i486-linux-gnu".
(gdb)

with that

$ gdb -q
(gdb)