John> Aside from the normal commands you can use, I was wondering if John> it's possible to use Python from the terminal instead of the John> normal bash commands (e.g. print instead of echo).
Take a look at ipython <http://ipython.scipy.org/>. It's not precisely what you've asked for, but it provides some features that help integrate Python with the shell environment. Skip -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list