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Re: Multi-line commands with 'python -c'

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Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 7:42 AM, Devin Jeanpierre
><jeanpierreda@gmail.com> wrote:
>> In unix shells you can literally use a new line. Or is that only 
bash?
> 
> You can in bash, I know, but it's fiddly to type it; and more
> importantly, it's not a good point in the "this is cleaner than a
> series of pipes" argument. My primary recommendation, of course, was a
> three-line script saved as an actual file, but for a more direct
> parallel to the pipe-it-three-ways model, I wanted to use -c.

and you also wrote originally that it's fiddly to edit. I think that 
Windows Powershell has (at least in the current ISE command line) got 
the editing a bit better. It's a minor difference though and it has 
taken Microsoft about 30 years to get to that point.

What may be a larger difference, or may just be my lack of Linux-foo, is 
this:

PS C:\python33> $script = @"
import os
for root, dirs, files in os.walk("."):
    if len(dirs + files) == 1: print(root)
"@

PS C:\python33> python -c $script
.\Doc
.\Lib\concurrent\__pycache__
.\Lib\curses\__pycache__
...

which is a style I've found useful for example when running a group of 
related timeit.py commands as I can put things like multi-line setup 
statements in a variable and then have a simpler command to repeat.

But bash as far as I can won't let me do that:

$ script='import os 
for root, dirs, files in os.walk("."):
    if len(dirs + files) == 1: print(root)
'
$ python -c $script
  File "<string>", line 1
    import
         ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax


-- 
Duncan Booth

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Multi-line commands with 'python -c' Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-05-30 10:52 +1000
  Re: Multi-line commands with 'python -c' Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-05-29 23:04 -0700
    Re: Multi-line commands with 'python -c' Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-05-29 23:45 -0700
      Re: Multi-line commands with 'python -c' Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-05-29 23:54 -0700
        Re: Multi-line commands with 'python -c' Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2014-05-30 09:33 +0200
      Re: Multi-line commands with 'python -c' Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-05-30 11:29 -0400
    Re: Multi-line commands with 'python -c' Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-05-30 17:20 +1000
      Re: Multi-line commands with 'python -c' Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-05-30 05:47 -0700
        Re: Multi-line commands with 'python -c' Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-05-30 22:58 +1000
  Re: Multi-line commands with 'python -c' Duncan Booth <duncan.booth@invalid.invalid> - 2014-05-30 21:11 +0000
    Re: Multi-line commands with 'python -c' Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda@gmail.com> - 2014-05-30 14:42 -0700
    Re: Multi-line commands with 'python -c' Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-05-31 07:47 +1000
      Re: Multi-line commands with 'python -c' Duncan Booth <duncan.booth@invalid.invalid> - 2014-05-31 16:41 +0000
        Re: Multi-line commands with 'python -c' Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2014-05-31 19:11 +0200
          Re: Multi-line commands with 'python -c' Duncan Booth <duncan.booth@invalid.invalid> - 2014-06-01 20:43 +0000

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