On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 2:49 AM, Chris Barker <chris.barker@noaa.gov> wrote:
And sure, some of those are completly clueless about what a command line is and how to use it, but others DO have an idea about the command line, but dont know that:
pip install something File "<stdin>", line 1 pip install something ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax
means: "this was supposed to be run at the command prompt"
So I think defining a "pip" builtin that simply gave a helpful message would be a good start.
(hmm, it's a syntax error, so not as simple as a builtin -- but it could be caught somehow to give a better message)
This sounds like the job for an enhanced REPL like Jupyter/ipython. In fact, it might already exist - I haven't looked. ChrisA