Configure IPython to use powershell instead of cmd

Question

Searched for this, and couldn\'t seem to find anyone who\'d already asked, so here goes.

I\'m starting to switch over to IPython as my go-to shell on Windows 7, and I\'d

Answer 1

It is a little bit dodgy, but you could resort to calling pre-made powershell scripts using

os.system('powershell C:\file.ps1')

or individual commands like so:

os.system("powershell; gci | where {$_.Fullname -contains 'some stuff'}")

EDIT:

I just tested this, and it seems to only have to open a single powershell instance:

os.system("powershell; gci; gc C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\services; [system.net.dns]::gethostbyaddress('203.20.74.6') | more")

but I guess it could get ugly and slow if you had to call this type of thing many times in a script.