How to write an inline for loop in python after another instruction?

Question

Starting with for works

root@messagerie-secours[10.10.10.19] /home/serveur # python -c "for x in xrange(10):print x;"
0
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9
root@messagerie-secours[10.10.10.19] /home/serveur # 

If you have for in the middle, it's a syntax error :

root@messagerie-secours[10.10.10.19] /home/serveur # python -c "a=2;for x in xrange(10):print x;"
  File "<string>", line 1
    a=2;for x in xrange(10):print x;
          ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
root@messagerie-secours[10.10.10.19] /home/serveur #

Is it possible to get rid of that syntax error ?

Answer 1

Woo, plenty of solutions! here some others:

python -c 'print "\n".join(map(str, xrange(10)))'

python <<"EOF"
for x in range(10):
  print x
EOF

echo $'a=12\nfor x in range(a): print x' | python