How to write a simple shell loop in python?

[Ben Finney]

Dietrich Bollmann <diresu at web.de> writes:

> I am trying to write a simple shell loop in Python.

You should investigate the ‘cmd’ module in the standard library
<URL:http://docs.python.org/library/cmd.html>.

> My simple approach works fine - but the first output line after
> entering something is always indented by one blank.

You should investigate the meaning of a comma ‘,’ in the ‘print’
statement (hint: it can affect subsequent ‘print’ statements)
<URL:http://docs.python.org/reference/simple_stmts.html#the-print-statement>.

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Ben Finney