Using for in one-liner

[Paul Watson]

BranoZ wrote:
> Paul Watson wrote:
> 
>>Can a for loop be used in a one-liner?  What am I missing?
>>
>>$ python -c "import sys;for i in range(5): print i,"
>>   File "<string>", line 1
>>     import sys;for i in range(5): print i,
>>                  ^
>>SyntaxError: invalid syntax
> 
> 
> This was tricky..
> 
> python -c $'import sys;\nfor i in range(5): print i,'
> 
> Separate statements with <newline> and enclose it in $'string'.
> 
> BranoZ

I did try '\n' a few ways.  But, I never thought to add a '$' before the 
string?  What made you think of that?  I cannot find any shell 
documentation about it either.  Can you provide a reference?  Thanks.