On Mon, Oct 21, 2013, at 16:47, 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?
Well, ignoring the "why would you want to" factor... this actually _is_ possible. C:\>python -c a=1^ More? More? print(a) 1 You can put quotes around any part of the command you need spaces in, but you _cannot_ have the ^ in quotes. So, with quotes, it would be as follows: C:\>python -c "a='1 2'"^ More? More? print(a) 1 2 This is a very obscure feature of the command processor, and I don't know if it works inside a batch file. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
