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Python on the command line

  • -V|options
  • -c|options

More or less the only thing I do on the command line with python is to check the version number:

python -V
python --version

You can run some Python code without creating a file, but I don't remember ever needing this. If you insist

python -c "print 42"
python3 -c "print(42)"

Type the following to get the details:

man python

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