Re: Need help in passing a -c command argument to the interactive shell.
Bill bsag...@gmail.com wrote: On my windows box I type = c:\xpython -c import re The result is = c:\x In other words, the Python interactive shell doesn't even open. What am I doing wrong? I did RTFM at http://www.python.org/doc/1.5.2p2/tut/node4.html on argument passing, but to no avail. Why are you reading documentation for Python 1.5? There have been just a few releases since then. Try reading http://docs.python.org/using/cmdline.html instead, specifically the part about the -i command line option. Or you could just try python -? at a command prompt. -- Duncan Booth http://kupuguy.blogspot.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Need help in passing a -c command argument to the interactive shell.
On Jul 28, 2009, at 4:16 PM, Bill wrote: On my windows box I type = c:\xpython -c import re The result is = c:\x In other words, the Python interactive shell doesn't even open. What am I doing wrong? Nothing! =) The -c option tells Python to execute the commands in the quotes as a Python program. It's as if you wrote a Python program that contained only import re and then executed that program. If you want to run the Python interpreter interactively, just type python (no quotes) at the command prompt and hit enter. I did RTFM at http://www.python.org/doc/1.5.2p2/tut/node4.html on argument passing, but to no avail. Yikes, that's the documentation for Python 1.5.2 which is nine years old! If that's the version you're running, then it's appropriate to read that documentation, but that's probably not the case. python --version (again, no quotes) should tell you what version you're running. HTH Philip -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Need help in passing a -c command argument to the interactive shell.
Bill wrote: On my windows box I type = c:\xpython -c import re The result is = c:\x In other words, the Python interactive shell doesn't even open. What am I doing wrong? I did RTFM at http://www.python.org/doc/1.5.2p2/tut/node4.html on argument passing, but to no avail. You've told python to run the command import re which it's happily done before exiting. Simply type python, then at the prompt (default ) type whatever commands you wish, e.g. c:\Users\Mark\python\regexpython Python 2.6.2 (r262:71605, Apr 14 2009, 22:40:02) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Type help, copyright, credits or license for more information. import re help(re.compile) Help on function compile in module re: compile(pattern, flags=0) Compile a regular expression pattern, returning a pattern object. -- Kindest regards. Mark Lawrence. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
