Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder1.news.weretis.net!feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed6.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.001 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 1.00; '*S*': 0.00; 'subject:How': 0.09; 'python': 0.09; '"if': 0.09; 'be:': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'subject:command': 0.09; 'subject:while': 0.09; 'subject:python': 0.11; 'assume': 0.11; '[it': 0.16; 'fail,': 0.16; 'false:': 0.16; 'oct': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'shells': 0.16; 'true:': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.17; 'am,': 0.27; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.28; 'chris': 0.28; 'indentation': 0.29; 'url:home': 0.33; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.33; 'consistent': 0.35; 'subject:?': 0.35; 'received:org': 0.36; 'subject:" ': 0.36; 'method': 0.36; 'charset:us-ascii': 0.36; 'uses': 0.37; 'subject:: ': 0.38; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'header:Received:5': 0.40; 'become': 0.65; 'subject: -': 0.84; 'dennis': 0.91; 'received:108': 0.91 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Dennis Lee Bieber Subject: Re: How to use "while" within the command in -c option of python? Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2012 16:42:23 -0400 Organization: > Bestiaria Support Staff < References: <5078b6a9$0$6574$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <20121013084132.GA5083@taris.box> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-108-79-221-211.dsl.klmzmi.sbcglobal.net X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 3.3/32.846 X-No-Archive: YES X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 24 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1350160956 news.xs4all.nl 6979 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:59497 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:31218 On Sun, 14 Oct 2012 05:41:11 +1100, Chris Angelico declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general: > On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 5:21 AM, Joshua Landau > wrote: > > Because Python uses indentation, what would "if A: print(1); if B: print(2)" > > even do? It has to fail, because we have to assume consistent indentation > > for ";"s*. With "\n" as I proposed, you still have to indent: it is just a > > method to bypass lame shells [it would become "if A: print(1)\nif B: > > print(2)"]. > > sikorsky@sikorsky:~/cpython$ python -c "if False: print(1); print(2)" > sikorsky@sikorsky:~/cpython$ python -c "if True: print(1); print(2)" > 1 > 2 > sikorsky@sikorsky:~/cpython$ > Which isn't the same example... The former would be: if False: print(1); if True: print(2) -- Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN wlfraed@ix.netcom.com HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/