BartlebyScrivener wrote: > I'm curious about this part of the post. Any fluent Pythoners actually > happy using Windows XP and, if so, do they use ipython as a kind of > bash shell substitute? Other alternatives to compensate for the widely > derided command line in windows? The widely derided command line in Windows is largely widely derided by people who are used to a different command line and wish windows matched the one they were used to. I have moved between a number of different "shells" in my programming career, and Windows "cmd.exe" is not at all the worst (though I had to do a lot of "help" command to learn how to use it). The tough part on Windows (for the Linux/Unix/*ix bigots) is that each program scans the command line that invoked it in its own inimitable way. This is not really the fault of the windows command line processor; this comes from allowing flexibility to individual programs. The Windows model is big programs that do everything; the *ix model is small independent processes that connect in interesting ways. I like the latter, but there is something to be said for the former.
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