Suppressing banner on interactive startup?

[Tim Chase]

A couple of hopefully short (interrelated) questions:

1) is there a way to suppress the banner when starting Python
interactively? Something like a "--quiet" that would just drop
you straight to a prompt? I like to use Python as a
nuclear-powered calculator, and am working on a couple little
projects where it would be quite handy to suppress the banner
version/help information (namely, if it gets piped to a
text-to-speech front end, the less noise the better)

2) is there a way to change the two prompts from ">>>" and "..."
to other options? Namely, again with the TTS option, something
that is more TTS friendly than hearing "greater-than greater-than
greater-than". The "dot dot dot" isn't nearly as bad.

I'm not sure what sorts of queries to google for to find this
out. I've tried things like

siteython.org changing interactive interpreter prompt -idle

and

siteython.org suppress start-up banner
siteython.org banner interactive

along with a few such variants, and had no results that seemed to
be what I wanted.

Short of editing CPython source, is there something I've
overlooked? Some command-line option that doesn't get listed in
"python -h" or an environment variable?

Thanks,

-tkc

 

[Eric]

A couple of hopefully short (interrelated) questions:

1) is there a way to suppress the banner when starting Python
interactively? [...]

2) is there a way to change the two prompts from ">>>" and "..."
to other options? [...]

I noticed that the first part of your query was never answered.
To combine both of these, try the following (modified to taste):

python -ic 'import sys; sys.ps1="$ "; sys.ps2="> "'

- Eric

 

[Tim Chase]

1) is there a way to suppress the banner when starting Python

interactively? [...]

2) is there a way to change the two prompts from ">>>" and "..."
to other options? [...]

I noticed that the first part of your query was never answered.
To combine both of these, try the following (modified to taste):

python -ic 'import sys; sys.ps1="$ "; sys.ps2="> "'

Yes, you are correct...while I got an answer to the second half,
I never heard anything about the first half, so I just assumed
there was no way as simple as this. Your answer worked like a
charm, and makes my Text-To-Speech tool all the better. Thanks!

-tkc