QUERY · ISSUE

to an arbitrary string

openby kentindellopened 2019-12-17updated 2019-12-18

enhancement

I have a setup with several PyBoards and the /dev/tty moves about depending on boot order and it's confusing which terminal goes to which board. It would be really nice to be able to set >>> to something else. Perhaps even "A:>" and "C:>" (OK, maybe not that).

CANDIDATE · PULL REQUEST

tools/mpremote: Support any prompt string when detecting soft reset.

mergedby dpgeorgeopened 2022-03-25updated 2022-03-28

tools

The prompt may be changed by sys.ps1.

Assessment

S Sonnet · medium

Both items concern custom REPL prompt strings. The query requests an API to change the REPL prompt from >>> to something user-defined. The candidate PR modifies mpremote's soft reset detection to handle prompts already changed via sys.ps1, implying sys.ps1 exists as the mechanism for prompt customization. However, the candidate does not implement the feature the query requests — it is a downstream tooling fix that accommodates custom prompts in the serial communication layer. The candidate operates in tools/mpremote, not in py/repl.c, so it does not resolve the core ask of exposing a configurable prompt API in MicroPython itself.

Suggested action

Leave open. The candidate PR is a related tooling change, not a resolution. If sys.ps1 was already implemented as the prompt-customization API (e.g., via a prior commit or PR), the maintainer should link that implementation as the actual resolution of #5432 and close it. Otherwise, #5432 remains open as a feature request.

Feature request: API call to change the REPL prompt from >>> to an arbitrary string

tools/mpremote: Support any prompt string when detecting soft reset.

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