From 86939c60073936e9863b31e30db7e6fa7a893d4e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Benoit Verret <verret.benoit@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2020 07:26:54 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Remove welcome_message from console.py

It is not used anymore.
The console prints network.banner instead.
---
 electrum/gui/qt/console.py | 7 -------
 1 file changed, 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/electrum/gui/qt/console.py b/electrum/gui/qt/console.py
index fbedfe236..98c2017f9 100644
--- a/electrum/gui/qt/console.py
+++ b/electrum/gui/qt/console.py
@@ -347,10 +347,3 @@ class Console(QtWidgets.QPlainTextEdit):
                 self.setCommand(beginning + p)
             else:
                 self.show_completions(completions)
-
-
-welcome_message = '''
-   ---------------------------------------------------------------
-     Welcome to a primitive Python interpreter.
-   ---------------------------------------------------------------
-'''

From 822083d16848915f54c1bf4d7328536a5d861efc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Benoit Verret <verret.benoit@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2020 07:46:22 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Remove empty startup message from console

Change >> to >>> as in a normal Python console.
Avoid printing an empty string which is why the console looked like:
>>
Network banner
>>

Instead of:
Network banner
>>>
---
 electrum/gui/qt/console.py | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/electrum/gui/qt/console.py b/electrum/gui/qt/console.py
index 98c2017f9..c7a02d8c5 100644
--- a/electrum/gui/qt/console.py
+++ b/electrum/gui/qt/console.py
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ class OverlayLabel(QtWidgets.QLabel):
 
 
 class Console(QtWidgets.QPlainTextEdit):
-    def __init__(self, prompt='>> ', startup_message='', parent=None):
+    def __init__(self, prompt='>>> ', parent=None):
         QtWidgets.QPlainTextEdit.__init__(self, parent)
 
         self.prompt = prompt
@@ -56,7 +56,6 @@ class Console(QtWidgets.QPlainTextEdit):
         self.setWordWrapMode(QtGui.QTextOption.WrapAnywhere)
         self.setUndoRedoEnabled(False)
         self.document().setDefaultFont(QtGui.QFont(MONOSPACE_FONT, 10, QtGui.QFont.Normal))
-        self.showMessage(startup_message)
 
         self.updateNamespace({'run':self.run_script})
         self.set_json(False)