import locale and print range on same line

[Vlastimil Brom]

2016-01-23 11:36 GMT+01:00 Marko Rauhamaa <marko at pacujo.net>:
> raiwil at gmail.com:
>
>> Can someone tell me why next code doesn't work?
>>
>> import locale; locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, ""); for i in
>> range(1,20,4): print(locale.format("%2f", i, 1))
>>
>> It gives an error: SyntaxError: invalid syntax --> indicating 'for'
>>
>> However I need to put the code on one single line.
>> When I separate them like below it works fine.
>>
>> import locale
>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, "")
>> for i in range(1,20,4):
>>    print(locale.format("%2f", i, 1))
>
> The answer is in Python's syntax definition. Not everything is allowed
> on a single line.
>
> See <URL: https://docs.python.org/3/reference/grammar.html>
>
> Only small_stmt's can be separated by semicolons.
>
> A for statement is a compound_stmt, which is not a small_stmt.
>
>
> Marko
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Hi,
if you realy can't use multiple lines (which is rather essencial for
python), you can circumvent this in some cases, e.g. using list
comprehension and ignoring the created list itself:
import locale; locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, "");
[print(locale.format("%2f", i, 1)) for i in range(1,20,4)]

vbr