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[Peter J. Holzer]

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 at hostname$ sed 's/^>>> /REPL> /' < text
> username at 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 at 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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