Hello,

I've discovered an issue while reading the Python tutorial. In chapter 6.2. "Standard Modules", the tutorial mentions the "sys" module and two of its attributes, ps1='<<<' and ps2='...'. The problem is I can't find these attributes in my version of Python (2.6.4.) when I do "dir(sys)". Have these attributes been deprecated but not removed from the tutorial yet?
Thank you for your time.
Lucian

That's odd, they should exist and do for me:

Python 2.6.4 (r264:75821M, Oct 27 2009, 19:48:32) 
[GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5493)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import sys
>>> sys.ps1
'>>> '
>>> sys.ps2
'... '
>>>

They exist only in interactive mode.  They won't be present if you do e.g.

python -c "import sys; print dir(sys)"

Then it must be an issue with my Python. This is what I get. 
>>> import sys
>>> dir(sys)
['__displayhook__', '__doc__', '__excepthook__', '__name__', '__package__', '__stderr__', '__stdin__', '__stdout__', '_clear_type_cache', '_current_frames', '_getframe', 'api_version', 'argv', 'builtin_module_names', 'byteorder', 'call_tracing', 'callstats', 'copyright', 'displayhook', 'dllhandle', 'dont_write_bytecode', 'exc_clear', 'exc_info', 'exc_traceback', 'exc_type', 'exc_value', 'excepthook', 'exec_prefix', 'executable', 'exit', 'flags', 'float_info', 'getcheckinterval', 'getdefaultencoding', 'getfilesystemencoding', 'getprofile', 'getrecursionlimit', 'getrefcount', 'getsizeof', 'gettrace', 'getwindowsversion', 'hexversion', 'last_traceback', 'last_type', 'last_value', 'maxint', 'maxsize', 'maxunicode', 'meta_path', 'modules', 'path', 'path_hooks', 'path_importer_cache', 'platform', 'prefix', 'py3kwarning', 'setcheckinterval', 'setprofile', 'setrecursionlimit', 'settrace', 'stderr', 'stdin', 'stdout', 'subversion', 'version', 'version_info', 'warnoptions', 'winver']
>>> sys.ps1

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<pyshell#23>", line 1, in <module>
    sys.ps1
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'ps1'
>>>

This is a problem in IDLE -- notice the file referred to in the traceback.

Ah. Well, I still don't think it's a bug, but that's for the IDLE maintainer to decide.

IDLE supporting sys.ps1 and sys.ps2 is discussed in issue13657. I am closing this issue in favor of that one.