On 29 December 2010 15:20, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> wrote:

On Wed, 29 Dec 2010 16:13:15 +0100
Georg Brandl <g.brandl@gmx.net> wrote:
> Am 29.12.2010 14:36, schrieb Michael Foord:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I often use python as a calculator or for simple operations using -c. It would
> > be enormously useful if python -c "..." would output on stdout the result of the
> > last evaluated expression in the same way that the interactive interpreter does.
>
> If it did, you couldn't do this anymore (with the obvious implementation):
>
> python -c 'print 1
> print 2'
>
> which I guess a few people do rely upon.
>
> A new -e option would be fine, but -- YAGNI?

Apparently, MIGNI.

Hah. :-)

And PIGNI.

Michael

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