[Tutor] Equivalent to perl -e

[Mike Hansen]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: tutor-bounces at python.org 
> [mailto:tutor-bounces at python.org] On Behalf Of wesley chun
> Sent: Monday, October 16, 2006 12:51 AM
> To: Chris Lasher
> Cc: Python Tutor
> Subject: Re: [Tutor] Equivalent to perl -e
> 
> > His lab maintains a significant amount of Perl code
> 
> this sounds like a full-time job on its own.  everyone brings up a
> good point... use the right tool for the job.  if it's one-liners,
> that's what perl -e is made for.  for everything else that you
> mentioned above, Python is the the one, preferably the only one
> --obvious way to do it.  :-)
> 
> one perl'y thing that i *do* use is perl -c, for checking your syntax.
>  i don't believe there's an equivalent way to do that from the Python
> cmd-line (correct me if i'm wrong!), but i wrote up a short script I
> called (pydashc.py) which just uses compile() to get the same
> effect... very useful for when i don't want to *run* something to see
> if i made any typos.
> 
> regards,
> -- wesley

I had this same issue when I moved from Perl to Python. You might take a
look at pyflakes, pychecker, or pylint.

Mike