using python with -c (as a inline execution in shell)

[les ander]

Hi,
in perl one can do all sorts of stuff in a single line form the command shell.
python has the -c option.
it is easy to do stuff like,
python -c "print 10+20"
etc statements
but suppose I want to read from the stdin (piped) i don't know how to do this since
python -c "from sys import stdin; for x in stdin: print x"

gives a syntax error.

Anyone one know how to do this?
Also, is there is site that talkes about doing this kind of stuff?
the man pages in xterm are pretty sparse and don't say that much
thanks

 

[Skip Montanaro]

les> python -c "from sys import stdin; for x in stdin: print x"

les> gives a syntax error.

les> Anyone one know how to do this?

How about:

% python -c 'from sys import stdin

> for x in stdin:
> print x
> '

hi there
bye
hi there

bye

Skip

 

[Simon Brunning]

but suppose I want to read from the stdin (piped) i don't know how to do this since
python -c "from sys import stdin; for x in stdin: print x"

gives a syntax error.

If you really must do this, there's always PyOne:
<http://www.unixuser.org/~euske/pyone/>.

Wouldn't touch it with a bargepole, myself.

 

[Alex Martelli]

but suppose I want to read from the stdin (piped) i don't know how to do
this since python -c "from sys import stdin; for x in stdin: print x"

gives a syntax error.

Anyone one know how to do this?

Not _good_ ways, but:

import sys; print sys.stdin.read()

import sys; sys.stdout.write(sys.stdin.read())

import sys; sys.stdout.writelines(sys.stdin)

are some approaches. None matches the double-spacing effect you appear
to be after, but changing every '\n' into two ain't _that_ hard, e.g.

import sys; print sys.stdin.read().replace('\n','\n\n')

etc, will give kinda the same doublespacing your approach would give if
it worked. Still, Python just isn't oneline-oriented...


Alex