sys.stdin.readline()

[SBrunning at trisystems.co.uk]

> From: aleaxit at yahoo.com [mailto:aleaxit at yahoo.com]
> 
> No, I think you're correctly observing that Python isn't oriented to
> one-liners -- not at all.  Most interesting things in Python require
> more than one line.  You could write a "oneliners shell" that 
> takes some
> defined separator and turns it into a newline, of course, e.g.:
> 
> bangoneliner.py:
>     #!/usr/bin/env python
>     import sys
>     oneliner = sys.argv.pop(1)
>     exec '\n'.join(oneliner.split('!'))

Check out PyOne[1]. It's a somewhat more sophisticated implementation of
this idea.

Cheers,
Simon B.
simon at brunningonline.net
http://www.brunningonline.net/simon/blog/ 

[1] http://www.unixuser.org/~euske/pyone/




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