Kenneth McDonald a écrit : > 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. > > Yes, I know that Cygwin is out there, but last I looked, they still > went through the Win command-line window, which imposes a lot of > restrictions. > > More generally, has anyone written any python programs to administer > various Win settings for which one must otherwise delve deep into mazes > of twisty little dialogs, all alike? Or to help out with other > annoyances? I know there are a lot of general utilities, but if they're > in Python, I can also use them as a starting base for my own needs. > > Finally, a significant incentive in doing this is that I could avoid a > lot of installation hassle, since virtually everything has at least a > decent installation package for Win. (I'd hoped this would happen for > OS X, but it never has). Can anyone think of important python- related > packages (release level, not cutting edge alphas) for which this might > not be the case? > > Many thanks, > Ken
Last time I checked, you could install a native win32gui version of rxvt with cygwin. This would give you a better terminal window than that crappy thing you get in XP. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list