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Python

Posted by Adriana Alvear
Adriana Alvear
1,538 Points

question about -i

I receive this when I try to use -i

treehouse:~/workspace$ -i wish.py
bash: -i: command not found

what it means?

Adriana Alvear
Adriana Alvear
1,538 Points

I resolved the last thing, but now I got this: treehouse:~/workspace$ python -i wish.py

adrianalunch = "N{TACOS}"
adrianalunch
'N\{TACOS}'

KRIS NIKOLAISEN
KRIS NIKOLAISEN
54,974 Points

Can you post the code in wish.py?

1 Answer

Michael Hulet
Michael Hulet
47,913 Points

-i is a command that you give to python when you run python. It tells Python to enter interactive mode after it runs whatever script you give it. For example, let's say I have this script:

something.py 
print("We ran this file!")
number = 1

Now, if we run this file like this:

python -I something.py

We'll see "We ran this file!" get printed out, and we'll also have an interactive Python prompt where we can write whatever other Python code we want. In this prompt, we can see that there's a variable defined called number whose value is 1. At this point, it's like we're writing new code at the bottom of something.py and executing it live