[IPython-user] strange issues...

[Fernando Perez]

On 8/19/07, fred <fredmfp@gmail.com> wrote:

> 2) in the doc, page 76, one can read
>
> $astr = ls *.py
>
> But:
>
> marsu:~/{1}/> $astr = ls *.py
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>    File "<ipython console>", line 1
>      $astr = ls *.py
>      ^
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>
>
> What's wrong ?

Those require the 'pysh' profile.  There's also a new 'sh' profile
that does similar things, but isn't described in the manual,
unfortunately.

Cheers,

f