Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > On Thu, 11 May 2006 20:12:55 GMT, Edward Elliott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > declaimed the following in comp.lang.python: > >> If putting the else in a separate arg unbinds it from the if, I would >> expect a syntax error. If OTOH naked elses are allowed on the command >> line for some odd reason, then this shouldn't happen: >> > More likely, the -C never processed anything after the first quoted > statement.
Yep you are correct. Odd, I could've sworn I've done that before. Here's what the man page has to say: "when called with -c command, it executes the Python statement(s) given as command. Here command may contain multiple statements separated by newlines. ... following options are passed as arguments to the command." So the following works: $ python -c 'if 0 == 1: print "foo" # arg is unterminated $$ else: print "bar"' # now we close it bar -- Edward Elliott UC Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall) complangpython at eddeye dot net -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
