On 06/04/2015 09:12 AM, Cecil Westerhof wrote: >> Can't IPython just call the find and du utilities? > > That is what > !find ~ -iname '*python*.pdf' > does. But I do not find that aesthetically.
Like I said, I find ipython to be hackish, but invoking find this way is no more hackish than writing a 100 lines of python just to emulate it. Using these existing external commands is more portable and more robust. You could always write an ipython function that wraps the call to the find command so you don't always have to see it. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
