Interact with system command prompt

[billie]

Hi all. I would like to know if there's some python framework able to
interact with system command prompt (cmd.exe or /bin/sh, depending on
the system) from python.
I need something that supports key/path auto completion by pressing TAB
button and the possibility to use interactive programs like ftp, gpg or
even vi.
I would like to write a remote shell application the best featured as
possible and I'm wondering if Python is able to emulate the
functionalities of applications like telnet or ssh.

Thanks in advance for your helping.

[Diez B. Roggisch]

billie wrote:

Hi all. I would like to know if there's some python framework able to
interact with system command prompt (cmd.exe or /bin/sh, depending on
the system) from python.
I need something that supports key/path auto completion by pressing TAB
button and the possibility to use interactive programs like ftp, gpg or
even vi.
I would like to write a remote shell application the best featured as
possible and I'm wondering if Python is able to emulate the
functionalities of applications like telnet or ssh.

Check out IPython.

http://ipython.scipy.org/
Diez

[billie]

Diez B. Roggisch ha scritto:

billie wrote:

Hi all. I would like to know if there's some python framework able to
interact with system command prompt (cmd.exe or /bin/sh, depending on
the system) from python.
I need something that supports key/path auto completion by pressing TAB
button and the possibility to use interactive programs like ftp, gpg or
even vi.
I would like to write a remote shell application the best featured as
possible and I'm wondering if Python is able to emulate the
functionalities of applications like telnet or ssh.

Check out IPython.

http://ipython.scipy.org/
Diez

Thank you. It seems to me a powerful tool. I'll try to play with it.

[billie]

Uhm... It seems that IPython got some problems:
http://ipython.scipy.org/doc/manual/node12.html

In details:

>Note that this does not make IPython a full-fledged system shell. In particular, it has >no job control, so if you type Ctrl-Z (under Unix), you'll suspend pysh itself, not the >process you just started.

>What the shell profile allows you to do is to use the convenient and powerful syntax of >Python to do quick scripting at the command line.

[Diez B. Roggisch]

billie wrote:

Uhm... It seems that IPython got some problems:
http://ipython.scipy.org/doc/manual/node12.html

In details:

>>Note that this does not make IPython a full-fledged system shell. In
particular, it has >no job control, so if you type Ctrl-Z (under Unix),
you'll suspend pysh itself, not the >process you just started.

>>What the shell profile allows you to do is to use the convenient and
powerful syntax of >Python to do quick scripting at the command line.

Might be. But it could provide some insight into how to solve your problem.

Diez

[Fernando Perez]

billie wrote:

Uhm... It seems that IPython got some problems:
http://ipython.scipy.org/doc/manual/node12.html

In details:

>>Note that this does not make IPython a full-fledged system shell. In
particular, it has >no job control, so if you type Ctrl-Z (under Unix),
you'll suspend pysh itself, not the >process you just started.

>>What the shell profile allows you to do is to use the convenient and
powerful syntax of >Python to do quick scripting at the command line.

Note that these are simply limitations of what has been done out of
developer interest, not fundamental ones of design. I'm not in the
business of writing system shells, so I (nor anyone else) never implemented
full-fledged job control.

If you do it and send it in, we'll be happy to include it. And I suspect
IPython does a LOT of stuff already that you'll spend a fair amount of time
rewriting from scratch, so perhaps helping in to fill in the missing pieces
might be a good investment of your time.

Cheers,

f (ipython lead developer)