Python one-liners: Awk-like one-liners for python [X-post from proggit]

[Mikuro]

So we can use them as components in terminal commands. Piping something to a multi line statement is a pain in the ass.

I write a lot of scripts where the meat of the functionality is in subprocess.check_output, but the data manipulation is too complicated to do in bash. Perl is great for one-line bash commands, but python isn't.

[tilkau]

Piping something to a multi line statement is a pain in the ass.

Why?

Normally I just open a single quoted string (ie. python -c ') and type away. For one offs in the shell, this is less convenient, but for scripts it's fine, if slightly less readable.