Tim Peters <t...@python.org> added the comment: You missed my point about IPython: forget "In/Out arrays, etc". What you suggest is inadequate for _just_ changing PS1/PS2 for IPython. Again, read their `parse()` function. They support _more than one_ set of PS1/PS2 conventions. So the code changes you suggest wouldn't help them. So long as they want to support more than one set, they'd still have to write their own `parse()` function just to deal with multiple PS1/PS2 conventions.
For the rest, it's not the number of people using non-CPython shells that's rare, but the number _of_ non-CPython shells. IPython is popular, they already solved their problem, and the patch wouldn't help them anyway. Who would it help? I don't take "a plain CPython shell with customized ps1/ps2" seriously because, as I said, after some decades now I still don't know of anyone who does that (granting that newbies sometimes try it, go 'ha! ha! - cool!", and never try it again). If any such people exist, I would oppose changing doctest just for them, because the _point_ of doctest is to help write easily understood tests. Catering to changing shell syntax in random ways opposes that goal - programming is a social activity. So, sorry, but I remain opposed. Something that might change my mind: find an author of a widely used alternative Python shell who says this change would allow them to _remove_ their own doctest-PS1/PS2 customization code. That would be a real use case. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue32832> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
