python -c option

[Klaus Alexander Seistrup]

Mike wrote:

> I am very new to Python and read the docs section about having
> python run commands from the command line. I have been successful
> with:
> 
> python -c "print 'Hello'"
> 
> It prints Hello
> 
> In the interpreter I can type 2+2 and it will return 4 but how do
> I do that from the command line?

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python -c 'print 2+2'

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> What I am really after is to do some command line processing where
> the output of grep is returning "prog=.01234" and I want to beautify
> it so it prints "12%"

Assuming the output is "prog=.1234", you _could_ do ugly things like

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python -c 'import sys; exec(sys.stdin.readline()); print "%d%%" % (prog*100,)'

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but why not write a small python script instead?


  // Klaus

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