Python inside bash inside Python

Dusty · 2005-12-11 17:29:40

check this out:

 dusty:~ $ python
Python 2.4.2 (#1, Nov 12 2005, 10:57:47) 
[GCC 4.0.3 20051006 (prerelease)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import os
>>> os.system('bash')
dusty:~ $ python
Python 2.4.2 (#1, Nov 12 2005, 10:57:47) 
[GCC 4.0.3 20051006 (prerelease)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>                    
dusty:~ $ exit
0
>>>

Now, the question is, can I make python my normal shell instead of bash? Gonna work on that..... Imagine, you could just call 'import magnum' and there's your editor.... and stuff..... woot.

Dusty

phrakture · 2005-12-11 23:23:52

I think there was a project recently to make a python enabled shell - bourne shell compatible with python builtins... I know there's a perl shell like that

Dusty · 2005-12-12 00:31:57

cool

Dusty

phrakture · 2005-12-16 16:35:53

Does this help? I don't know if it's a full-on shell or just an interactive python interp:
http://geophile.com/osh/index.html

Mr Green · 2005-12-16 16:55:51

http://ipython.scipy.org/

NSITH

phrakture · 2005-12-16 17:59:24

phrakture wrote:

Does this help? I don't know if it's a full-on shell or just an interactive python interp:
http://geophile.com/osh/index.html

Hmm, it looks like this is actually a shell tool... allowing you to make lambda expressions awk style:

 $ find . | osh ^ f 's: path(s)' $

It looks rather interesting though... not sure if I like the enforced '^blah$' delims though...

Dusty · 2005-12-16 23:12:34

Hey, these are really cool..... would be so cool if one of my good friends with time on their hands would make a couple packages for me to experiemnet with sometime... when I have free time away from this utter bullshit that is driving me to homocidal thoughts....

Dusty

phrakture · 2005-12-16 23:20:43

I thought IPython was just a replacement for the "$ python" interpreter, when mucking around command line style?

Dusty · 2005-12-16 23:47:08

I think so but I'm thinking of using the regular interpreter as a shell replacement, so an enhanced one mich be cooler to play with

as if I had time for cool stuff like this

Dusty

phrakture · 2005-12-17 00:49:40

Dusty wrote:

I think so but I'm thinking of using the regular interpreter as a shell replacement, so an enhanced one mich be cooler to play with
as if I had time for cool stuff like this
Dusty

make a package that has functions like 'ls' and whatnot - "from shellutils import *"

Dusty · 2005-12-17 00:51:44

yeah, like that. I have some neat ideas... python functions for common apps, python string processing instead of grep.... python python python..... ooooooh.....

Dusty

awalk · 2005-12-19 04:49:29

A shell with close integration with Python would be awesome. I'd been thinking about this a while back, after hearing all about Monad.

In terms of use as a replacement shell, I don't think simply having a bunch of packages would be enough. What if you want to do redirection? I know 'print' can redirect to files, but it's not nearly as nice as simply writing "> filename". But then, if you have a custom syntax, you're likely to murder some of Python's features.

One of the cool things you could do (as with Monad), is returning objects from a program, rather than just a return code.

If anyone has any bright ideas, I'd be interested to work on something like this.

Arch Linux

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Python inside bash inside Python

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