'indent'ing Python in windows bat
Terry Reedy
tjreedy at udel.edu
Tue Sep 18 01:08:54 EDT 2012
On 9/17/2012 9:08 PM, David Smith wrote:
> Hello, I'm essentially a newbie in Python.
> My problem in searching the archives is not knowing what words to use to
> ask.
>
> I'm converting windows bat files little by little to Python 3 as I find
> time and learn Python.
> The most efficient method for some lines is to call Python like:
> python -c "import sys; sys.exit(3)"
>
> How do I "indent" if I have something like:
> if (sR=='Cope'): sys.exit(1) elif (sR=='Perform') sys.exit(2) else
> sys.exit(3)
Quite aside from whether this is good idea, I believe putting \n
followed by spaces or \t in the quoted string should work. It does for exec.
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Terry Jan Reedy
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