[Python-ideas] Option of running shell/console commands inside the REPL

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Fri, Feb 01, 2019 at 04:15:06PM -0500, Terry Reedy wrote:

> For repeated use within and between sessions, put 'from os import system 
> as oss' in a startup file.  Then one only needs "oss('dir')".  Note that 
> 'dir' only works on Windows; the unix equivalent is 'ls'.

Actually, on some Unix/Linux systems, ``dir`` is either an alias to 
``ls``, or a similar but separate executable:

[steve at ando ~]$ which dir
/usr/bin/dir

(TIL that dir can be a seperate executable... I was convinced it was 
only an alias until I tried it just now.)


-- 
Steve