Gmail eats Python

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Sun, 26 Jul 2015 02:34 am, Laura Creighton wrote:

> Gmail eats Python.
> 
> We just saw this mail back from Sebastian Luque which says in part:
> 
>>>> try: all_your_code_which_is_happy_with_non_scalars except
>>>> WhateverErrorPythonGivesYouWhenYouTryThisWithScalars:
>>>> whatever_you_want_to_do_when_this_happens
> 
> Ow!  Gmail is understanding the >>> I stuck in as 'this is from the
> python console as a quoting marker and thinks it can reflow that.


That's one of the reasons I have my Python prompt set to "py> ". 




-- 
Steven