Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!1.eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed3a.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail
Return-Path: <torriem+gmail@torriefamily.org>
X-Original-To: python-list@python.org
Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org
X-Spam-Status: OK 0.048
X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.90; '*S*': 0.00; 'emulate': 0.07; 'portable': 0.09; 'python': 0.11; 'from:addr:torriem': 0.16; 'from:name:michael torrie': 0.16; 'invoking': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.16; 'am,': 0.23; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.24; 'header:User- Agent:1': 0.26; 'external': 0.27; 'said,': 0.27; 'command': 0.28; 'wraps': 0.29; 'function': 0.30; 'lines': 0.30; "skip:' 10": 0.30; "can't": 0.32; 'message-id:@gmail.com': 0.35; 'could': 0.35; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.35; 'but': 0.36; 'subject:: ': 0.37; 'received:org': 0.38; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'received:192': 0.39; 'more': 0.62; 'charset:windows-1252': 0.65; '100': 0.79; 'cecil': 0.84; 'westerhof': 0.84
X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at torriefamily.org
Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2015 13:11:00 -0600
From: Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com>
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.7.0
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: python-list@python.org
Subject: Re: Find in ipython3
References: <87y4k2hyvf.fsf@Equus.decebal.nl> <mailman.142.1433388453.13271.python-list@python.org> <87vbf4giu6.fsf@Equus.decebal.nl> <mkpn9f$ghc$1@reader1.panix.com> <87iob3h5id.fsf@Equus.decebal.nl>
In-Reply-To: <87iob3h5id.fsf@Equus.decebal.nl>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20+
Precedence: list
List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language <python-list.python.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-list>, <mailto:python-list-request@python.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/>
List-Post: <mailto:python-list@python.org>
List-Help: <mailto:python-list-request@python.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list>, <mailto:python-list-request@python.org?subject=subscribe>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.python
Message-ID: <mailman.174.1433445065.13271.python-list@python.org>
Lines: 15
NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6
X-Trace: 1433445065 news.xs4all.nl 2919 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:36538
X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl
Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:92087

On 06/04/2015 09:12 AM, Cecil Westerhof wrote:
>> Can't IPython just call the find and du utilities?
> 
> That is what
>     !find ~ -iname '*python*.pdf'
> does. But I do not find that aesthetically.

Like I said, I find ipython to be hackish, but invoking find this way is
no more hackish than writing a 100 lines of python just to emulate it.
Using these existing external commands is more portable and more robust.

You could always write an ipython function that wraps the call to the
find command so you don't always have to see it.