python -c commands on windows.

Question

Manual says "-c Execute the Python code in command. command can be one or more statements separated by newlines, with significant leading whitespace as in normal module code."

In Windows Command Prompt I get:

C:ProgramsPython33>python -c "a=1nprint(a)"
 File "", line 1
 a=1nprint(a)
 ^
SyntaxError: unexpected character after line continuation character
(Same if I remove quotes.)

How do I get this to work?

Answer 1

Well, ignoring the "why would you want to" factor... this actually _is_ possible.

C:>python -c a=1^
More?
More? print(a)
1

You can put quotes around any part of the command you need spaces in, but you _cannot_ have the ^ in quotes. So, with quotes, it would be as follows:

C:>python -c "a='1 2'"^
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More? print(a)
1 2

This is a very obscure feature of the command processor, and I don't know if it works inside a batch file.

Answer 2

From the odd workarounds department (not tested on Windows):

$ python3 -c "exec('a=1nprint(a)')"
1