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It's a shame Python doesn't natively support easy invocation from command line. It really shoots down a whole class of applications where bash is getting used b

• jeroenhd 6y ago
  It doesn't? If I write this into a file (/tmp/test.py): #!/usr/bin/env python print("Hello, world!") and mark it as executable (chmod +x /tmp/test.py), I can just execute it as /tmp/test.py like I would do with any bash file. If you mean invocation as "execute a command that I'm passing", 'python -c' does exactly that. Even as a complete shell it works including changing directories and using standard python to do file IO, though it won't execute any system executables and doesn't do piping like you'd like from a shell. It's not intended for that purpose so I can't really blame python for that.
  • black_puppydog 6y ago
    > though it won't execute any system executables and doesn't do piping like you'd like from a shell I think that's what xonsh was made for? :)
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