Kenneth McDonald wrote: >For unfortunate reasons, I'm considering switching back to Win XP >(from OS X) as my "main" system. Windows has so many annoyances that >I can only compare it to driving in the Bay Area at rush hour (OS X >is like driving in Portland at rush hour--not as bad, but getting >there), but there are really only a couple of things that are really, >absolutely preventing me from making the switch. Number one is the >lack of a decent command line and command-line environment, and I'm >wondering (hoping) if perhaps someone has written a "Python shell"-- >something that will look like a regular shell, let users type in >commands, maybe have some of the nice features of bash etc. like tab >completion, etc, and will then execute an underlying python script >when the command is entered. I'm not thinking of IDLE, but something >that is really aimed more at being a system terminal, not a Python- >specific terminal. > > ipython -p pysh
IPython rocks as a Python shell. I use zsh mostly, but IPython's pysh looks pretty good. I hate to help you get back on Windows, though :-) - jmj -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list