[Tutor] Changing the interpreter prompt symbol from ">>>" to ???

[Cameron Simpson]

On 12Mar2016 00:53, boB Stepp <robertvstepp at gmail.com> wrote:
>On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 10:08 PM, wolfrage8765 at gmail.com
><wolfrage8765 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>  On a web based terminal via codeanywhere.com setting sys.ps1 =
>> chr(16) results in no character being displayed. It is literally just
>> a new line. So something to think about. I set it back to sys.ps1 =
>> '>>>'
>
>Thanks for the feedback.  I tried out your link, codeanywhere.com .  I
>have to confess my experience was not a good one.  Firstly, the
>environment supplied would not accept my space bar characters!  So I
>could not type any import statements.  However, I did try:
>
>print('\u25ba'), which did not require any spaces and received an
>error stating that it would not accept values greater than hex ff.  So
>it is pretty clear that following Cameron's suggestion is not (At
>least on the surface.) doable in the codeanywhere environment.  Might
>I suggest pythonanywhere?  All of this works fine with utf-8 there.

Sounds like codeanywhere is an 8-bit environment. Maybe ISO8859-1 (untested 
assumption).

Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <cs at zip.com.au>