Arbitrary Shells? about try

[timofurrer]

I was thinking about that too! Are you talking about ptipython? If not .. from where can I get it?

The question is how we make sure the shell is installed in the created virtualenv. For ipython and ptpython it's not a problem (we can just pip-install those). But it's a problem with ptipython because it only runs if ipython and ptpython are installed.

I don't really want to hardcode this dependency. The easiest thing I could think of right now is to publish a package on PyPI called ptipython which acts as a metapackage to install ipython and ptpython which I'm not really a fan of ;)

Any ideas?

[timofurrer]

I've implemented a --shell option to specify an arbitrary shell to launch. However, this does not solve the issue with ptipython. Do you have thoughts about it?

It's released with version 0.1.6!

[timofurrer]

I just uploaded the following metapackage to PyPI: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/ptipython

This should solve the issue for now. I would be more than happy to remove this package as soon as we've got a better solution.

Use ptipython:

try requests --shell ptipython

[mknecht]

Sorry burried in work … woah @timofurrer you're too fast. :)

Yes, I meant ptipython (without tab-completion my spelling's worthless)

And, honestly, I'd have thought that it's my fault for specifying a shell I don't have. This is awesome, though. Upgraded, thank you! :)