On 7/20/2014 11:34 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 1:28 PM, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote:
A few users have noticed (and complained) that setting sys.ps1 and sys.ps2
*in the batch mode user process* has no effect. The Idle doc should better
explain why this is and should be. User code should not affect the
operation of Idle. Idle is separately configured through dialogs.
As I understand it, setting them has *absolutely* no effect,
currently, right?
As far as I know, setting sys.ps1 and sys.ps2 have no effect in any
batch mode program. This has nothing to do with Idle.
There's no situation in which it would be useful to
set them? In that case, it might be useful to put some magic in there
(although I'm not sure it's possible; can't use @property at top level
in a module) that gives a notification - pointing users to the dialog.
In general, Idle should execute user code the same way that the
interpreter does, subject to the limitations of the different execution
environment.
No idea how you'd go about it, but telling someone when what s/he does
is useless can be helpful.
What needs better documentation is what the execution environment is,
and how the shell is different from a line-buffered console.
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