Paul McNett wrote: > Cameron Laird wrote: >> Infidel. While I sure feel that way about csh(1), it >> surprises me you'd criticize ksh(1) so. 'Fact, 'mong >> all the *sh-s, I *recommend* ksh for programming. May- >> be the two of us see things differently. > > I keep wondering how difficult it would be to make a Python shell that > exposes all of Python but also includes some builtin commands such as > cd, mkdir, etc., that are just names bound to os.chdir, os.mkdir..., and > is smart enough to take a given command from the user and try to do a > os.system() on it based on the path. IOW, I'd love to have all of Python > available as my unix shell, while still doing shell-type stuff such as > traversing directories, launching applications, etc. > > There's likely a project that does this already that I'm just unaware of.
yes, there is: planck[~]> ipython -p pysh Welcome to pysh, a set of extensions to IPython for shell usage. help(pysh) -> help on the installed shell extensions and syntax. Python 2.3.4 (#1, Feb 2 2005, 12:11:53) Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. IPython 0.6.15 -- 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. IPython profile: pysh [EMAIL PROTECTED]|1> cd test [EMAIL PROTECTED]/test]|2> ls argv.py* cf.py div.py exit.py* lcomp.py sanner.py* times.sh* ast.tcl* data error.py* foo.old pplot2.py* scopes.py* t.py avg.py* die.py err.py foo.py pplot.py* splot.py vars.py bar.py div.c err.pyc inspectbug.py pylabug.py strings.py visex.py bar.pyc div.f exit2.py* inter.py ramptest.py* tgp.py xplot.py* [EMAIL PROTECTED]/test]|3> $$a=ls e*py [EMAIL PROTECTED]/test]|4> a <4> ['error.py', 'err.py', 'exit2.py', 'exit.py'] [EMAIL PROTECTED]/test]|5> for f in a: |.> if len(f)>6: |.> wc -l $f |.> 64 error.py 2 exit2.py 10 exit.py [EMAIL PROTECTED]/test]|6> Exit Cheers, f -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list