Hi, I finally got around to playing with ZShell (after all those emails announcing it on the list) and its cool, thanks Jerome. But I have to admit type command lines into a browser window doesn't thrill me. Typing command lines into standard cli however, does. So I started thinking that I could use the simple Cmd module in python, make calls using xmlrpc and... ZShellCLI, a command line interface was born... my quick proof of concept works like this: E:\Zope23>bin\python ZShellCLI.py ZShellCLI: A CLI to ZShell
open Connected to http://127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1> pack 7 Done "pack 7"
Open a server, type your command, its executed through ZShell by xml-rpc and so on. The coolest part about this could be access to local tools "vim standard_html_header" (one day) for example... Anyway questions (mostly to Jerome): - Is this useful to anyone else? - Any plans to make it a product, then I could call the methods directly? Plus more support like changing directories.. - I cheated, I cant show return results, because everything comes back in html. (As a proof it works I open the results in a browser :) If it was a product, or there was a html / text option that would be great. I could parse everything through a html stripper, but that seems rather daft. Any chance we could get around this...? Thanks Jerome, good product and thanks for helping out the community. Cheers -- Andy McKay