python -c commands on windows.
Peter Otten
__peter__ at web.de
Tue Oct 22 03:31:46 EDT 2013
Terry Reedy wrote:
> Manual says "-c <command>
> Execute the Python code in command. command can be one or more
> statements separated by newlines, with significant leading whitespace as
> in normal module code."
>
> In Windows Command Prompt I get:
> C:\Programs\Python33>python -c "a=1\nprint(a)"
> File "<string>", line 1
> a=1\nprint(a)
> ^
> SyntaxError: unexpected character after line continuation character
> (Same if I remove quotes.)
>
> How do I get this to work?
>From the odd workarounds department (not tested on Windows):
$ python3 -c "exec('a=1\nprint(a)')"
1
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