[Pythonmac-SIG] reposting: Q: emulating os.system() on macs?

[Giorgio Brajnik]

Sean,

thank you for your thoughts. It looks like a promising direction, even
though I cannot yet estimate the effort needed to make N-Shell become a
python extension.
Could you please give me a pointer to where the old sources of N-shell
can be downloaded?

   Giorgio
>>>>> On Fri, 3 Dec 1999 13:24:29 -0800, "Sean Hummel" <sean@digitalharmony.com> said:

    Sean> Having put some thought time into this for previous
    Sean> projects.  I would do the following:

    Sean> 1. Get the old N-Shell source.  This was a well written
    Sean> commercial product which became defunct, and the company
    Sean> released it to the public domain.  It is easily expandable
    Sean> with plugins.  And I have found it useful in many projects
    Sean> which required a command line interface.  It already does
    Sean> the most common things you would expect a shell to do.
    Sean> 2. I'd modify the source of Nshell so that Python was
    Sean> embedded in it.  3. Make an os.system module for your
    Sean> embedded version of Python, which allows you to send those
    Sean> command lines to the N-Shell command interpreter.  4. Write
    Sean> plugins for N-Shell which simulate your commands.

    Sean> Of course this is more simplistic than I am sure the project
    Sean> would be, but it may be worth your time to look into such a
    Sean> solution.