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Secret Recipes of the Python Ninja
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Secret Recipes of the Python Ninja

by Cody Jackson
May 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
380 pages
9h 37m
English
Packt Publishing
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Utilizing Python command options

When used non-interactively, the Python interpreter monitors the command line and parses all input before the command is actually executed. The following snippet shows all the possible options available when calling Python from the command line:

python [-bBdEhiIOqsSuvVWx?] [-c command | -m module-name | script | - ] [args] 

When working with a command line interface (CLI), examples of shell commands often show square brackets [] to indicate optional instructions. In this case, there are three groups of optional input that can be provided to the python command: generic options, interface options, and arguments.

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