using python on the command line with 'here-documents' and pipes

[calmar]

On 2004-11-14, Roy Smith <roy at panix.com> wrote:

hi,

> $ python -c 'import sys
>> for line in sys.stdin:
>>     print line[:10]
>> 
>> ' << EOF
>> line one of many
>> line two of many
>> line three of many
>> EOF
> line one o
> line two o
> line three

Yeah, that works nicely.

Actually, I didn't find the solution to just press enter (after a -c
'..) and write the idented code I want.

> executable.  Then you've got a stand-alone program that you can edit and 
> maintain apart from the shell script that surrounds it.  In the long 
> run, this is likely to be simpler to test and to maintain.

Yeah, true.


Thanks a lot to all!

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