python -c option

[Mike]

I am very new to Python and read the docs section about having python run
commands from the command line. I have been successful with:

python -c "print 'Hello'"

It prints Hello

In the interpreter I can type 2+2 and it will return 4 but how do I do
that from the command line? I have tried a few things without success.

What I am really after is to do some command line processing where the
output of grep is returning "prog=.0123 4" and I want to beautify it so it
prints "12%"

Maybe I should mess with bash but I am new to *nix in general and I wanted
to learn Python.

Thanks,
Mike

[Klaus Alexander Seistrup]

Mike wrote:

I am very new to Python and read the docs section about having
python run commands from the command line. I have been successful
with:

python -c "print 'Hello'"

It prints Hello

In the interpreter I can type 2+2 and it will return 4 but how do
I do that from the command line?
#v+

python -c 'print 2+2'

#v-
What I am really after is to do some command line processing where
the output of grep is returning "prog=.0123 4" and I want to beautify
it so it prints "12%"
Assuming the output is "prog=.1234 ", you _could_ do ugly things like

#v+

python -c 'import sys; exec(sys.stdin. readline()); print "%d%%" % (prog*100,)'

#v-

but why not write a small python script instead?
// Klaus

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