SherjilOzair wrote: > Has it been considered to add shell features > to python, such that it can be used as a > default shell, as a replacement for bash, etc.
I think yes, but rather than become a shell, Python makes easy programming a shell that can execute Python code. The tendency has been to excel as a scripting language, and prefer to add extra features to the standard library. To start, look at the built-in functions eval() and (raw_)input; and the library modules: subprocess, os and os.path, glob and re, shutil, and code. > I'm sure everyone would agree that doing this > would make the terminal very powerful. 'Cept of course that they already are. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
