In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paul McNett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: . . . >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. . . . You'll want to look into IPython. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list