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From: Gisle Vanem <gvanem@broadpark.no>
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Subject: Re: for-loop on cmd-line
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 15:40:57 +0200
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"Dave Angel" <d@davea.name> wrote:

> it has nothing to do with being on a command line.  You're using
> semicolon to combine several statements, and there are restrictions on
> what can be combined that way.  One restriction is the looping
> constructs, for, if, while.

Ok, I suspected something like that.

> You can do it easily enough with a list comprehension.  Let us know if
> you can't work that out.

Later. I'm only scratching the surface of Python.
 
> Any reason why you don't just make a one-file python script, and run
> that instead of your one line batch file? 

I though of calling that python line from a C-program using
popen() and parsing the output. Since popen() on Win32 AFAIK doesn't accept 
multiple lines, I guess I must write a .py-file to %TEMP first.

Thank to all.

--gv