The Xonsh Python Shell

Re:The Xonsh Python Shell by mrweasel on Monday October 12, 2020 @04:18PM (#24758993)

I had been wondering about using Python as my shell, but always rejected it, because regular shell operations would be to complicated, compared to the relative fewer times having Python directly available would be helpful.

Mostly I'm just sticking with bash, not because it's best, but because it's available everywhere. I don't really feel setting up something like Xonsh, zsh or ksh on every server I ssh into, to much work. The time is honestly better invested in getting better at bash, if you spend your day on multiple different systems. It's a little sad actually.

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Re:The Xonsh Python Shell by animal_spirits on Monday October 12, 2020 @04:36PM (#24759157)

I originally thought the same, I've tried using Python as my shell because I really love programming in Python, but it never felt smooth. I stopped and since then I've been getting better and better at bash and it is becoming more apparent to me that bash is the best tool for the job of a command line. Being able to glide between programs and pipe output without having a python API just makes things faster.

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Re:The Xonsh Python Shell by AcerbicZero on Monday October 12, 2020 @04:30PM (#24759109)

I use this https://github.com/Bash-it/bash-it on my "main" system, because you're right, no one has time to setup their shell every time they ssh into a new server, but it is nice to have a "pretty" bash setup for where most of the work gets done.

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