Pobshell: A Bash-like shell for live Python objects

[pdalloz]

Hi cmd2 people, I made a thing using cmd2!

https://github.com/pdalloz/pobshell

To quote the README
"""It's cd, ls, cat, and find — but for Python objects instead of files. Stroll around your code, runtime state, and data structures. Inspect everything: modules, classes, live objects. It's pick‑up‑and‑play: familiar commands plus optional new tricks. A fun and genuinely useful way to explore a Python app, package, or Python itself."""

Would it be possible to add it to your "Projects using cmd2" section?

Sorry if this should have been a pull request instead, the notes said "please get in touch".

[tleonhardt]

Hi @pdalloz . That looks like something people might enjoy for live debugging sessions and such.

Feel free to submit a PR to update the README to add info on pobshell.

[pdalloz]

Thank you, I've done that.

[kmvanbrunt]

@pdalloz I was looking through your code and came across this TODO.

def ns_path_complete(self, text: str, line: str, begidx: int, endidx: int,
                     path_filter: Optional[Callable[[str], bool]] = None) -> List[str]:
    ...
    # TODO This breaks cmd2 rules, it should not be a bound method, but I need a handle to PV instance

https://github.com/pdalloz/pobshell/blob/main/pobshell/pobmain.py#L950

You're not doing anything wrong here, so there is nothing to fix. When our documentation says not to set choices_provider or completer to a bound method, we mean the following.

completer=ns_path_complete       # CORRECT
completer=self.ns_path_complete  # WRONG

[pdalloz]

You've put my mind at rest I've had a background worry about that.

I see the documentation is clear now you point it out. I'll remove the comment.

Thank you for taking the time.