Friday, January 11, 2019

System commands in the interpreter

PyScripter 3.6 allows you to issue system commands in the interpreter.  System commands start with an exclamation mark (!).  For example:


One gotcha that you need to be aware is that you changing the current directory will not have any effect, since system commands are executed in a separate process.  You will need to use  os.chdir for the change to take effect.

A nice twist about this feature, is that if you use an SSH Engine you can issue system commands to the remote server:



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