On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 9:40 AM, Paul Moore p.f.moore@gmail.com wrote: ..
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).
+1
For some reason I always type -e (for "eval" or "exec"?) before realizing that it should have been -c.
What do you think python -e "for i in range(5): i" should print? Note that on >>> prompt:
for i in range(5): i ... 0 1 2 3 4