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Speaker: Anthony Scopatz

Xonsh is general purpose shell that combines Python and the best features of Bash, zsh, and fish. Relying only the standard library and PLY, the xonsh language is a strict superset of Python that compiles to a Python AST. The shell provides exciting features such as a rich history, tab completion from bash and man pages, syntax highlighting, auto-suggestion, foreign-function aliases and more!

Slides can be found at: https://speakerdeck.com/pycon2016 and https://github.com/PyCon/2016-slides
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I'd highly recommend the xonsh shell for scripting if you're familiar with python: http://xon.sh/tutorial.html

Once you do tutorial and learn the rules for going between shell and python, it's super easy to slice and dice.

I have always disliked that moment of "yes, a shell script is probably the best tool for this job" that then leads me to banging my head against bash syntax for an hour. Python libraries like `sh` are great, but still a little high overhead. Now the twice a month I have to shell script I find to be pretty fun, and I'd highly recommend xonsh.

Great PyCon 2016 talk on it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaje5I22kgE

> BTW, i recall Intel showing off a variant of the python interpreter being run directly from GRUB.

That was me: https://biosbits.org/ , presented at Pycon 2015: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYQ_lq5dcvM and 2016 with networking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlkKvetGFSk

> Also, i think there was someone working on a Python CLI that could replace bash etc.

That was "xonsh" (http://xonsh.org/ , pronounced "conch"), by Anthony Scopatz, presented at PyCon 2016: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaje5I22kgE

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