[IPython-user] Inconsistency in "!!" ?

[Krishna Mohan Gundu]

Hi Walter,

> Actually it isn't, it's a (deprecated) way of writing repr():
>
> In [1]: `"foo"`
> Out[1]: "'foo'"

mmm...

> Why not use plain Python syntax?
>
>     foo = `"string" ls`
>
> isn't that much shorter than
>
>     foo = ipstring("ls")

we could do that too and I agree it reads well

> Of course `ls` (without keyword) is hard to beat, but typing ` on a
> german keyboard is cumbersome.

then what is used in shell scripting, for example,
for file in `ls`
...

> 2/3rds of what you want is rather simple (albeit a bit longer) with ipipe:
>
> In [2]: foo = list(ix("ls"))

does ix support variable substitution?

cheers,
Krishna.