Use python in shell, as if it were awk

Question

Say I want to print 1 + 1 on stdout (i.e. one-liner coding).

With awk I could do it simply with:

$ echo | awk '{print 1+1}'
2

How to do this with python?

Answer 1

you are looking for -c:

$ python -c 'print 1 + 1'
2