Python as shell

[Dave Farrance]

Cecil Westerhof <Cecil at decebal.nl> wrote:

>I am working again with Python and I am impressed again. ;-)
>
>I thought there was a Python shell that could be used instead of Bash
>(or whichever shell you are using), but I can not find anything about
>it. Am I wrong, or are my search engine skills so bad?

You're probably thinking of IPython which has some shell-like commands,
like ls and cd, and you can execute system commands by prefixing them
with "!".