It's indeed comparable. I've used IPython for quite a while, and though it's great, I somehow fall back to using bash every time. Conceptually, I like Python m

It's indeed comparable. I've used IPython for quite a while, and though it's great, I somehow fall back to using bash every time. Conceptually, I like Python much more than shell script, but it seems I end up having to type and think more when simply using it as a shell. When I get to the point where I actually need a real programming language such as Python to express what I want to do, I generally make a script and don't type it in the shell.