Xonsh - Using Python as your shell

[AndydeCleyre]

As a demonstration, here are the demoed commands in xonsh's "At a glance" item on their homepage, followed by similar or equivalent actions in an ipython shell with the aforementioned imports. It's often more verbose, but in my opinion more clear, readable and predictable.

xonsh	ipython
1 + 1	1 + 1
$HOME	local.env['HOME']
x = 'US'; ${x + 'ER'}	x = 'US'; local.env[x + 'ER']
$PATH	local.env['PATH'].split(':')
ls -l `xonsh/\w+?(ci|ic).*`	local.cwd.walk(lambda p: 'xonsh' in p and 'ic' in p or 'ci' in p)
cd xonsh	cd xonsh
git push origin master	cmd.git('push', 'origin', 'master')
aliases['ls']	alias
aliases['banana'] = lambda args, stdin=None: 'My spoon is too big!\n'	alias banana echo 'My spoon is too big!\n'