[Tutor] Unix shell vs Python shell

[Gus Tabares]

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On Wednesday 11 February 2004 19:04, Christopher Spears wrote:
> What is the main difference between the Unix shell and
> Idle?  I'm asking this because I discovered the os
> module, which has commands that look suspiciously like
> utilities in Unix.  In Unix, the shell acts like a
> traffic cop and calls up needed utilities.  Does Idle
> do the same?
>

The IDLE shell is mainly used for experimenting with pieces of Python code. 
You can use os.system function to make calls to the operating system, but you 
probably wouldn't want to replace this with actually using a Unix shell 
because that would be slow (for the user) and just silly. 

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Gus Tabares


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