[GRASS-dev] Re: A portible shell for GRASS 7+ ?

[Glynn Clements]

David Finlayson wrote:

> I should add, that one of IPython's features is "autocall". This
> removes the need to use parethesis in function calls. What is cool
> about this is that we could write wrappers around the grass programs
> as functions and within IPython, the syntax of calling the functions
> would be virtually identical with the current documentation:
> 
> For example:
> 
> class general:
>      def list(type, mapset):
>           print os.popen('g.list type=%, mapset=%' % (type, mapset))

You don't want to be using a popen()-style interface which takes an
entire command as a string and uses the shell to decompose it, but
something which takes a list of arguments. Using the shell is a
nuisance if any of the arguments need to contain spaces or shell
metacharacters.

-- 
Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>