[Jython-dev] Support for alias in InteractiveConsole?

[David G. <dg...@hu...>]

Hello, I'm new to Jython so forgive me if this is a FAQ... I'm
considering the use of Jython mainly in an interactive mode for a
debugger I'm writing. If I'm examining memory locations I don't want to
have to type (eg) "x(address)" to look at the contents of address
because shifting to do the brackets is a bit of a pain. I would rather
type "x address".

It appears to be really easy to add a simple aliasing facility to Jython
just by subclassing InteractiveConsole. In raw_input I could preprocess
the String to do my alias checking before returning the possibly
modified result to the caller.

Before I go any further though, has anybody done anything similar
already, and am I barking up the wrong tree? (I realise hacking the
syntax is possibly anathma to purists :)

Cheers,

Dave