using python at the bash shell?

Wed Aug 16 04:08:38 EDT 2006

In <mailman.9403.1155709688.27775.python-list at python.org>, cga2000 wrote:

> and also some bash built-ins such as "cd" do not do anything .. maybe
> ipython starts a subprocess that switches and then immediately exits ..
> so when I get the prompt back I'm back where I started.

If you put a ``!`` in front of ``cd`` this is what happens.  Just leave
out the ``!``.  IPython has it's own built-in ``cd`` command.

Ciao,
	Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch