Terry J. Reedy added the comment:
Starting with 3.10.0b1, Shell is being reworked in ways that make this issue,
as formulated, out of date. Solving the indent problems means that prompt must
be removed from the first line of interactive input. #37892. The initial
solution is to put >>>
Terry J. Reedy added the comment:
The part about startup files in my last message is probably wrong. If one
starts IDLE by 'import idlelib.idle' after setting 'sys.ps1 = 'me ', then the
setting is recognized. However, a startup file that runs in the user process
will not