Re: totally replacing bash with IPython on my Linux system

Gyro Funch <[email protected]> Thu, 10 Dec 2015 15:13:38 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.python.ipython.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 12/10/2015 2:51 PM, Pete Forman wrote:
> Brian Merchant <[email protected]> writes:
> 
>> I'd like to replace bash with IPython on my system, so that
>> even files like .profile are in Python rather than shell
>> script.
>> 
>> I have some confusion on the topic, even though asking a few
>> questions on the matter. Here are the questions I have asked
>> previously:
>> 
>> 1) *How can I replace bash with Python? * 
>> http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/176091/how-can-i-replace-bash-with-python
>>
>>
>> 
From the answer to that question, I learned how to automatically
>> replace bash with IPython after log in.
>> 
>> 2) *.profile is written in shell script -- can I get my system
>> to understand that I want it to execute a Python script
>> instead?* 
>> http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/248477/profile-is-written-in-shell-script-can-i-instead-make-my-system-understand-th
>>
>>

Have you looked at xonsh?

http://xonsh.org/

-gyro