On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 12:22:42PM EDT, Simon Forman wrote: > John Salerno wrote: > > [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 > > > > Can you use IPython to do normal bash things, like installing, etc.? > > "normal bash things"? :-) Yes, most commands can be run by putting an > '!' before them. If you ever need to run something that for some > reason doesn't work with this, you can always run !bash and do it in > bash. :-) > Sorry, I'm late with my howmework .. but this is rather cool.
Although .. prefixing all your "system commands" with the far-to-reach "!" would probably become a royal pain after a while. Why do you write "most commands" .. what type of command might not be run by "putting '!' before them?" In the linux world it would be rather interesting if a distro was available that uses nothing but python. The installer .. the startup scripts .. utilities .. etc. Maybe there is such a thing and I'm just not aware of it? Since it would be byt-code being executed it would be faster than regular shell stuff and a lot easier to customize/maintain. Don't know enough to figure out if such a thing is possible, though .. Thanks cga -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
