On 2021-09-02 09:56:38 -0500, Michael F. Stemper wrote: > On 31/08/2021 18.02, Barry wrote: > > The big problem with >>> is that it means a third level quote in > > email clients. So when people cut-n-paste REPL output it’s formatted > > badly by some > > email clients. A prompt that avoided that issue would be nice. > > A little bit of piping fixes that: [...] > username@hostname$ sed 's/^>>> /REPL> /' < text > username@hostname$ python3 > Python 3.5.2 (default, Jan 26 2021, 13:30:48) > [GCC 5.4.0 20160609] on linux > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. > REPL> import sys # in the original, this line will be messed up > REPL> sys.exit(0) # this one, too > username@hostname$
Yes, but then it doesn't look like the Python prompt anymore which may
confuse the reader even more.
hp
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