Multi-line commands with 'python -c'

[Terry Reedy]

On 5/30/2014 2:45 AM, Rustom Mody wrote:

> $ python -c 'import os, pprint; pprint.pprint ([ r for r, d, f in os.walk(".") if len(d+f) != 1])'
>
> Mysterious that print after a ; is fine whereas for is not

Not at all. Simple statememts can follow ; or :, compound statements cannot.

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Terry Jan Reedy