Need help in passing a "-c command" argument to the interactive shell.

[Bill]

On my windows box I type => c:\x>python -c "import re"

The result is => c:\x>

In other words, the Python interactive shell doesn't even open. What
am I doing wrong?

I did RTFM at http://www.python.org/doc/1.5.2p2/tut/node4.html on
argument passing, but to no avail.