[David] > I'm trying to write something with the same brevity > as perl's one-liner > > eval "\$$1=\$2" while @ARGV && $ARGV[0]=~ /^(\w+)=(.*)/ && shift;
import sys, re for arg in sys.argv[1:]: if re.match(r'\w+=.*', arg): exec arg else: break -- Richie Hindle [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list