How come it is wrong to write "for" after "import os;"

Question

I'm using Windows 7 with official Python 2.7 .

On CMD command line, I can write

python -c "import os; print os.environ['PATH'].split(';');"

However, this is wrong:

C:\>python -c "import os; for p in os.environ['PATH'].split(';'): print p"
  File "<string>", line 1
    import os; for p in os.environ['PATH'].split(';'): print p
                 ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Could someone please help me out? I really hope to write import and subsequent statements in one line, because I'd like to write a doskey command like this, to make a easy-to-read PATH listing:

doskey lpath=python -c "import os; for p in os.environ['PATH'].split(';'): print p"

Answer 1

How about using __import__ instead?

python -c "for p in __import__('os').environ['PATH'].split(';'): print p"

UPDATE

Alternative: replacing ; with newline.

python -c "import os; print os.environ['PATH'].replace(';', '\n')"