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Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 17:20:00 -0000
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4]: Make "python" start a standard Python prompt
From: Matt Rice <ratmice@gmail.com>
To: Khoo Yit Phang <khooyp@cs.umd.edu>
Cc: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>, Phil Muldoon <pmuldoon@redhat.com>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
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On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 9:58 AM, Khoo Yit Phang <khooyp@cs.umd.edu> wrote:

> One more option is to move the Python REPL to "python-repl" and alias it =
to "py", and leave the old "python" as is. The "py" alias gives a convenien=
t short command, "python-repl" can be used from a script to start a REPL, a=
nd the old "python" remains as is.
>

FWIW i have used the 'py' alias in scripts numerous times (though
afaict the ones i've released into the wild have been switched to
'python' before release), though I believe there to be a few examples
of it on stack overflow (kind of hard to search for though).