[IPython-user] [Python-Dev] a quit that actually quits

[Walter Dörwald]

Fernando Perez wrote:

> Walter Dörwald wrote:
> 
>>> Yup, intriguing...  At the very least, Walter's tool should be more 
>>> widely known, and perhaps later on we can integrate it with ipython 
>>> further.
>>
>> I think the only thing required for this to work is extensible 
>> displayhooks.
> 
> Since I've had 0.7.0 in rc mode for a while, I don't want any 
> potentially distabilizing changes right now, so I'll leave this as 0.7.1 
> material, but it sounds like a great plan.
> 
> Would you be willing to contribute this to the ipython codebase?  It's 
> BSD licensed, I typically put in a copyright notice of the original 
> author in all files which aren't originally mine.

No problem with that, but sh.py is an old hack. For something that goes 
into IPython I'd say we need a cleaner API. With Ville's tablefilter 
suggestion those fancy Or and Any operators are no longer needed.

>>> Wo says we can't do better than Microsoft 
>>> (http://arstechnica.com/guides/other/msh.ars)? :)
>>
>> At least we have a better syntax.
> 
> Yup.  We're going to need an official ipython-as-shell team formed, as 
> my day to day work is a bit too orthogonal to this for me to make it 
> justice.  I get the feeling that Ville and you may get signed up ;)

I'm not sure how much time I can devote to this, but I'm certainly 
willing to help.

Bye,
    Walter Dörwald