Syntax error [was: Installed modules list?]

[John J. Lee]

On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Jeremy Hylton wrote:

> >>>>> "JJL" == John J Lee <phrxy at csv.warwick.ac.uk> writes:
>
>   JJL> On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Jeremy Hylton wrote:
>   >> You can only join simple statements with a semicolon.  None of
>   >> the statements that use colons between parts are simple
>   >> statements.
>
>   JJL> Is there any way to work around this for the purpose of simple
>   JJL> unix scripts using python -c, then?  Other than putting the
>   JJL> python in a separate file, of course.
>
> I don't think there's anyway to abuse -c to accept compound
> statements.  A separate file is your only recourse.

Ah well; Python isn't Perl I guess, and thank Guido for that.
:)


John