sys.ps2 assignment has no effect

[Alex Martelli]

Lance wrote:

> I'm running the latest Python on Windows XP. The default installed
> secondary string appears to be blank spaces rather than an ellipse. The
> following has no effect:
> 
> import sys
> sys.ps2 = '... '
> 
> Any suggestions?

Is this with the text-mode interactive Python (which would
surprise me, as I've run the latest Python on XP w/o such
problems), or with IDLE or other such IDE?  IDLE does not
use PS2, afaik (it always uses spaces instead) and other IDEs
might do likewise.


Alex