[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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
FWIW, I second this. If you want to use python as your shell use Ipython. It's just great. Fernando Pérez has done a Good Thing IMHO. Be sure to read (or at least skim) the manual: http://ipython.scipy.org/doc/manual/index.html Here's an example of calling "man ls" and then getting the results of "ls -l" into a python list (one list item per line) and then extracting the size (as a string) of the MANIFEST file... Enjoy... (I hope reformatting doesn't screw this up too badly.) $ ipython Python 2.4.3 (#2, Apr 27 2006, 14:43:58) Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. IPython 0.7.1.fix1 -- An enhanced Interactive Python. ? -> Introduction to IPython's features. %magic -> Information about IPython's 'magic' % functions. help -> Python's own help system. object? -> Details about 'object'. ?object also works, ?? prints more. In [1]: !man ls Reformatting ls(1), please wait... <viewing actual man page here. ~Simon> In [2]: !!ls -l Out[2]: ['total 40', 'drwxr-xr-x 3 sforman sforman 4096 2006-08-02 12:41 docs', 'drwxr-xr-x 3 sforman sforman 4096 2006-04-27 23:49 logs', '-rw-r--r-- 1 sforman sforman 887 2006-04-27 23:49 MANIFEST', '-rw-r--r-- 1 sforman sforman 173 2006-05-04 14:04 MANIFEST.in', '-rw-r--r-- 1 sforman sforman 3338 2006-06-14 20:19 README', '-rw-r--r-- 1 sforman sforman 475 2006-07-16 17:40 setup.py', 'drwxr-xr-x 4 sforman sforman 4096 2006-08-07 15:04 src', 'drwxr-xr-x 3 sforman sforman 4096 2006-06-21 20:59 tests', '-rw-r--r-- 1 sforman sforman 898 2006-07-09 21:53 TODO', 'drwxr-xr-x 3 sforman sforman 4096 2006-08-05 17:37 util'] In [3]: data = [n.split() for n in _[1:]] In [4]: print data[2][4] 887 In [5]: etc... HTH, ~Simon -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
