Re: [Python-ideas] python -c "..." should output result like the interpreter

Am 29.12.2010 15:46, schrieb Michael Foord:

I like the idea, but that's a fairly big semantic change. What about
adding an -e option that takes an expression, and prints its value? So
you'd have

   python -e "12 / 4.1"

(AFAICT, -e is unused at present).

That would be great. I did worry that changing the output would be backwards incompatible with code that shells out to Python using "-c", so a different command line option would be great. So long as it works with multiple statements (semi-colon separated) like the current "-c" behaviour.

Hey, what about this little module:

import sys for x in sys.argv[1:]: exec compile(x, '<cmdline>', 'single')

Then:

$ python -me '1+1; 2+2' 2 4

Georg