This post describes how to write a polyglot -- in this case a script which runs as valid Bash or Python, to search for available Python interpreters.
The script initially runs as Bash but upon finding a first match, the script will call itself again this time using the expected Python interpreter in interactive mode!
And now, for the polyglot code:
#!/bin/sh
# reinvoke this script with bpython -i, ipython -i, or python -i
# reference: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/66242
''':'
if type bpython >/dev/null 2>/dev/null; then
exec bpython -i "$0" "$@"
elif type ipython >/dev/null 2>/dev/null; then
exec ipython -i "$0" "$@"
else
exec python -i "$0" "$@"
fi
'''
from helpers import (
base_parser,
get_hvpc_from_args,
)
parser = base_parser('Interactive Python interpreter & connection to hvpc')
args = parser.parse_args()
hvpc = get_hvpc_from_args(args)
print('\nYou now have access to the hvpc object, for example: hvpc.roles\n')
In this case you can see that we setup the interactive interpreter's environment to create an hvpc (Husky VPC) object for exploration.
If you want a pure python version that doesn't use a bash/python polygot, checkout this code I wrote: https://github.com/russellballestrini/botoform/blob/master/botoform/plugins/repl.py