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I have never tried it but I would probably prefer to use sh ( https://pypi.org/project/sh/ https://pypi.org/project/sh/ ) and have users install that before hav

• BeetleB 2y ago
  Cursory look at the docs: sh.ls("-l", "/tmp", color="never") Oh dear - no. A lot less ergonomic than "ls -l /tmp". If all you want is a convenient way to call commands from Python scripts, sh makes sense. The benefit of xonsh, though, is that it is a shell :-) So, for example, if you want to have a fancy prompt, you can use Python functions to construct your fancy prompt. If you want to manipulate your $PATH as a list (or any similar environment variable), you just treat it like a Python list and do whatever you want with it. I often write simple conditionals/for loops right on the prompt (not via a shell script). I use the Python syntax, but call whatever command I want and manipulate it. And it's really handy that the shell prompt is a Python prompt - you can import any Python library and play with it. I never run "python" to get to a Python prompt. I have it available at all times. I want to look at a docstring for a standard Python function? I just do it at the command line.