I made this http://defcraft.org/hacks/pycmds/pii.py http://defcraft.org/hacks/pycmds/pii.py to help define "commands" in the interactive interpreter. Commands l

I made this http://defcraft.org/hacks/pycmds/pii.py http://defcraft.org/hacks/pycmds/pii.py to help define "commands" in the interactive interpreter. Commands like "ls" and "h os". "ls" is a simple command -- invokes the Unix command "ls -l". A more complicated one: "h os" -- run help on the os module (just like "help(os)"). This is kinda tricky because "h os" is actually a syntax error in Python. When interactive, I catch syntax errors and see if they are user defined commands, in which case I execute the desired command. This works for Python 2.5, but shouldn't be too hard to port to Python 3.0. I briefly looked at IPython, but that seemed to complicated for my needs. (Also, http://defcraft.org/hacks/pycmds/strftime_helper.py http://defcraft.org/hacks/pycmds/strftime_helper.py uses the above file to help the user with strftime spec usage. I can never remember all the special characters.)