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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>I tried to use the “-c” option to run a script called “a” with a method called “Test()”, and received an error message as follows:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>S:\>python -c "import a\n a.Test()"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> File "<string>", line 1<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> import a\n a.Test()<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> ^<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>SyntaxError: unexpected character after line continuation character<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>S:\><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>If I replace the “\n” with a semicolon, then it works. Documentation for the interface option “-c” reads (<a href="http://docs.python.org/using/cmdline.html#command-line">http://docs.python.org/using/cmdline.html#command-line</a>):<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><tt><b><span style='font-size:14.5pt;color:black'>-c</span></b></tt><tt><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:black'> <command></span></tt><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="http://docs.python.org/using/cmdline.html#cmdoption-unittest-discover-c" title="Permalink to this definition"><span style='font-size:9.5pt;color:#C60F0F'>¶</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;line-height:130%;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Execute the Python code in <em><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>command</span></em>. <em><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>command</span></em> can be one or more statements <span style='background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow'>separated by newlines</span>, with significant leading whitespace as in normal module code.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I am running 64-bit Python27 on Windows Vista. I have not tried this with any other version of Python or on any other platform. In my personal opinion, the semicolon is cleaner than the ‘\n’ anyway, so I would prefer that the documentation just be updated to say “separated by semicolons” instead of “separated by newlines”, but that is assuming all other versions of Python on all platforms behave the same.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Joshua D. Hodson<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>ATK Aerospace Systems<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><a href="mailto:josh.hodson@atk.com">josh.hodson@atk.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>(435) 863-3646<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>