[New-bugs-announce] [issue36255] Provide a simple way to delete python's welcome message

[Benoit Pilatte]

New submission from Benoit Pilatte <ben.pilatte at gmail.com>:

To my knowledge and extensive research on the problem, there is no simple way to disable python's welcome message:

"""
Python 3.7.2 (default, Jan 13 2019, 12:50:01)
[Clang 10.0.0 (clang-1000.11.45.5)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
"""

It is appended to stdout before the execution of `PYTHONSTARTUP` and is very difficult to remove. This could be easily fixed by:

 1. Allowing modification of the welcome message in `PYTHONSTARTUP`
 2. Provide an option to disable it (IPython provides a `--no-banner` option to disable it)
 3. At least provide a documented way of disabling it without hijacking the shell.

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components: Interpreter Core
messages: 337614
nosy: benp
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Provide a simple way to delete python's welcome message
type: enhancement
versions: Python 3.7

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