[Python-ideas] python -c "..." should output result like the interpreter

[Cameron Simpson]

On 29Dec2010 10:27, Fred Drake <fdrake at acm.org> wrote:
| On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 9:40 AM, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:
| > I like the idea, but that's a fairly big semantic change. What about
| > adding an -e option that takes an expression, and prints its value?
| 
| +1
| 
| Changing -c would be unacceptable.

Likewise.

My -1 on having -c output the final value is as for the shell:
does "sh -c sh-cmd" have an implied echo? No, and lucky we are that it
does not.

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