Since it is said that a-shell can execute programs written in Python, C language, etc., try writing a Python program that displays the contents of 'test.txt' as a trial.

How to Run Cmd.exe From Python. While it is not common to need to call Windows functions within Python code, you may occasionally need to do so in order to make a program work correctly. If you ...

OliveTin enables you to craft buttons with predefined shell commands so that anyone can run them through a web interface.

The trick is that, when using the Python kernel, you can use a ! to execute shell commands and a %% to specify that a particular cell lives in a file. So consider this notebook from Google Collab: ...