On Aug 25, 11:57 am, Thomas Guettler <guet...@thomas-guettler.de> wrote: > In one of the first chapters of "Advanced programming in the unix > environment (second edition)" there is explained how a unix shell works. > > You could write you own shell using python. This way the python > interpreter gets stared only once, and not for every call to "ls". > > Have fun, > Thomas > > nickname schrieb: > > > wow guys! thanks for all the great leads! this is awesome! > > > The reason why I want to do this is because I am going to do a little > > project. I will write a python script called ls which will log the > > time and username and then will show the actual ls output. I want this > > to be transparent and so want to throw the ls output (via python) > > exactly as it will be in native shell execution. > >
very good point, I will look it up :-) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
