On 09/18/2012 01:08 AM, Terry Reedy wrote: > On 9/17/2012 9:08 PM, David Smith wrote: >> Hello, I'm essentially a newbie in Python. >> My problem in searching the archives is not knowing what words to use to >> ask. >> >> I'm converting windows bat files little by little to Python 3 as I find >> time and learn Python. >> The most efficient method for some lines is to call Python like: >> python -c "import sys; sys.exit(3)" >> >> How do I "indent" if I have something like: >> if (sR=='Cope'): sys.exit(1) elif (sR=='Perform') sys.exit(2) else >> sys.exit(3) > > Quite aside from whether this is good idea, I believe putting \n > followed by spaces or \t in the quoted string should work. It does for > exec. >
Don't forget, the OP uses Windows. Last I looked, the cmd processor had miserable escaping features. But I could easily be wrong -- I haven't used Windows deliberately for quite a while now. -- DaveA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
