zpyi

zpyi makes your shell smarter, in more ways than one. It's no magic, it's python.

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Your shell now falls back to python if some command couldn't be handled by zsh. So you can now do 2+3 directly in your shell. Well, something much more complex than that too.

Here's an example:

'
a = 1
b = 2**107
c = a + b
print (c*2)
'

And this actually works! Output: 324518553658426726783156020576258 (you can check it, it IS right 😄 )

Of course, you would not want to break any existing functionality provided by Zsh. This prompted the need to use '2**107' instead of 2**107 to evaluate 2 to the exponent of 107. Otherwise there would have been conflicts with the wildcard syntax of Zsh.

Oh, and I imported math library already. You can directly call functions from the math library.

In short, you can assume that any command beginning with a single quote (and ending too) would be evaluated by python. You now have your Python history (for short commands) right in your shell! Even more useful is this:

'sqrt(2**10)' > outputfile
cat outputfile

So now you don't need to run python -c 'print(sqrt(2**10))' >> outputfile, only to remember that it won't work because math is not imported while using python -c.

Examples

These things should now work in your shell.

• 2+4
• '2**107'
• 'pow(10, 5)'
• 'sqrt(5)' Also, any other python program using os, math or sys libraries, be it single line or multi line.

Installing?

The installation script is concise enough:

cd ~
git clone https://github.com/sakshamsharma/zpyi ~/.zpyi
echo "source ~/.zpyi/zpyi.zsh" >> ~/.zshrc

If you feel lazy, this works too:

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sakshamsharma/zpyi/master/install_script.sh | bash

TODO

• Add support for querying for missing packages