Re: [gentoo-dev] initscripts in python

["merv" <merv@spidernet.com.cy>]

Sure could. Can see the logic of the argument.  And then there could 
be the implementation of a "*.psh" for a python-lang shell script.  Just 
ideas, but this could be an option too. Then we are starting to address 
script files and runtime shell interaction.

Anyone have any thoughts on how to get the shell to accept Python 
commands/arguments/statements and what-not in runtime from the 
prompt?  Would it be a big undertaking to use C-level translation of a 
new set of Python macros/symbols passed to the the kernel?  I 
suppose that a decision at that point would involve some consideration 
of whether the objective was to incorporate the Python languages itself 
(to greater or lesser extent) into the shell  or whether it was the syntax 
and structure of Python that was to be *lifted*.  Another way to see it 
would be the potential for bloating scripts with *import*s as a result of 
Python languages transplantation on the one hand, while having such 
useful things as f.tell() and f.seek() available on the other hand.  If the 
syntax were incorporated into the shell, would there be a neat way of 
by-passing the need for a full-blown python interpreter?  I think this 
could be worth some serious attention, but I just wonder if anyone has 
any cool ideas or some time to share on this admittedly vague (so far) 
possibility.



On 16 Apr 2003 at 1:25, Jeff Rose wrote:

> Could you use a hybrid of both bash scripts and python by using the
> '-c' argument to run single python commands?
> 
> -Jeff


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