On Thu, 29 May 2014 15:26:37 -0500, Mark H Harris wrote: > I think the IDLE REPL should have a system shell mode. What say you?
I don't use IDLE, so I don't really care what you do to it. But speaking generally, -1 on that. IDLE is primarily aimed at beginners, and beginners have enough trouble distinguishing the system shell separate in their heads from the Python shell, the last thing they need is something that blurs the difference. There is a power-user shell that does exactly what you want, turned up to eleven: IPython. IPython allows you to run system commands by prefixing them with ! and has an entire subsystem of user-configurable "magic" commands using % prefix. (By the way, ; won't work for a Python shell, because ;spam already is valid Python syntax: it's an empty statement followed by the statement spam, separated by a semicolon.) -- Steven D'Aprano http://import-that.dreamwidth.org/ -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
