How to shell alias commands to be reusable in Python code?

[Tom Schwaller]

Hi all,

I recently started to heavily use and promote xonsh. It allowed me to reduce the length of Bash code to a fraction of it! Nice!

The only problem I faced so far is probably a FAQ but I could not find a solution.

I use shell commands like the following

om -k -t @(self.target) -u @(self.user) -p @(self.password) configure-bosh \

--networks-configuration @(self.networks_configuration) \

--network-assignment @(self.network_assignment)

many times in my Python classes and would just do something like:

omcli configure-bosh \ --networks-configuration @(self.networks_configuration) \

--network-assignment @(self.network_assignment)

where omcli is an abbreviation for

om -k -t @(self.target) -u @(self.user) -p @(self.password)

I tried several things, but all did not work. Can somebody tell me how to do that?

thanks for the help and the good work!

Tom Schwaller

[Tom Schwaller]

I found the hint in the 0.6 release notes and then in the docs how to define aliases:

aliases['omcli'] = 'om -k -t ' + self.target + ' -u ' + self.user + \

' -p ' + self.password

works perfectly! ;-)