Brandon Harris wrote:
> Needing to pass a string command into a third party program and having
> issues creating a string to do what I need.
>
> here's what I have so far.
>
> eval('import sys;
> sys.stderr.write(\'\n\n\nCompleted!!!\nCompleted!!!\nCompleted!!!
\nCompleted!!!\nCompleted!!!\nCompleted!!!\n\n\n\');')
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> File "<string>", line 1
> sys.stderr.write('
> ^
> SyntaxError: EOL while scanning string literal
>
>
> so I've changed it up every way I can think and I get other errors.
>
> eval('import sys;
> sys.stderr.write("\n\n\nCompleted!!!\nCompleted!!!\nCompleted!!!
\nCompleted!!!\nCompleted!!!\nCompleted!!!\n\n\n");')
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> File "<string>", line 1
> import sys; sys.stderr.write("
> ^
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>
>
> Brandon L. Harris
Python discriminates between statements and expressions. eval() can only
deal with expressions, but 'import whatever' is a statement. Try
exec 'import sys\nsys.stderr.write("completed!\n")'
instead.
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