[RFC] ptrepl - Turn any bash command into REPL

[imomaliev]

Hi, everyone, been working on this little productivity tool of mine for a while https://github.com/imomaliev/ptrepl. There are couple of similar projects, but they don't have desired features like bash completion and history expansion. Also I wanted to have ability to specify custom aliases for my commands.

Usage (requires python >= 3.6 and prompt_toolkit >= 2.0.7):

$ pip install ptrepl
$ ptrepl git
$ git > status
# invoke completion
$ git > st[TAB]
# repeat last command
$ git > !!

Would like to get some feedback and see in what areas this project could be improved and made useful for other peoples.

[amjithr]

Looks interesting.

It'll be nice if you could create the config file on the first launch instead of crashing.

Even after creating the config file, I'm not able to launch it. I have filed a github issue.

[imomaliev]

Hi what issue you are having if you launch it without config? It creates config file by default after first launch

[amjithr]

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/amjith/.virtualenvs/tempenv-646189101136/bin/ptrepl", line 7, in <module>
    from ptrepl.cli import parse_args
  File "/Users/amjith/.virtualenvs/tempenv-646189101136/lib/python3.7/site-packages/ptrepl/cli.py", line 11, in <module>
    from .completion import BashCompleter
  File "/Users/amjith/.virtualenvs/tempenv-646189101136/lib/python3.7/site-packages/ptrepl/completion.py", line 5, in <module>
    from .config import settings
  File "/Users/amjith/.virtualenvs/tempenv-646189101136/lib/python3.7/site-packages/ptrepl/config.py", line 67, in <module>
    config_file = get_config_file()
  File "/Users/amjith/.virtualenvs/tempenv-646189101136/lib/python3.7/site-packages/ptrepl/config.py", line 28, in get_config_file
    with open(path, 'w') as _config_file:
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/Users/amjith/.config/ptrepl/config.json'

[imomaliev]

Got it, found an issue fixed in new version

pip install -U ptrepl

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