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On 10/21/13 4:47 PM, 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?
>
You could use semicolons:  python -c "a = 1; print(a)"   If your code is 
too long for that, it sounds horrible to put it in the command line...

--Ned.