No it is not code obfuscation. It is just a Unix/Linux/Windows command line that can do something without needing to write a perl program separately. And my example was just one that came to my mind, but of course it is not a helpful one. This way it could be done search and replacements in more files of a certain type, or other things like that. And these are not possible with python. Octavian ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nick Stockton" <nstockton@xxxxxxxxx> To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, December 08, 2008 12:20 AM Subject: Re: python examples >$ python > Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Nov 14 2008, 19:46:32) > [GCC 4.3.2] on linux2 > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>>> import urllib;from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup;data = >>>> BeautifulSoup(urllib.urlopen("http://www.google.com";));print >>>> data.title.string > Google >>>> > > I consider putting multiple statements on one line like that to be bordering > on code obfuscation. > > Nick Stockton > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Octavian Rasnita" <orasnita@xxxxxxxxx> > To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2008 3:32 PM > Subject: Re: python examples > > >> The first code that should print an expression on more lines doesn't do >> this, but just prints it in a single line escaping the end of line char >> with \. >> >> And the second code that in perl is done in the command line, here it >> needs a full program with more lines. >> So you were not right when you told that you can write a full program in >> the command line, without needing to press enter more than once. >> >> Am I right? >> >> Octavian >> > __________ > View the list's information and change your settings at > //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind > __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind