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The one-line shell command python version ended up being surprisingly painful: echo "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\\nfrom random import choice\\nwhile(True):\\n

• lifthrasiir 14y ago
  It is a spec. Python in general prefers a statement over an expression, so the while statement does not have an expression form.
  • dalke 14y ago
    Python has two types of statements; "simple" statement and "compound" statements. Compound statements are those, like the if- and while-statements, which require multiple lines. Only simple statements may be separated by a ';', not compound statements. This is a bit different than what you wrote. For example, "x=4" is a statement, and not an expression, but "x=4;y=5;z=6" is a valid Python line because assignment is a simple statement, and multiple simple statements may be separated by a ';'.
• anonymous 14y ago
  I did it with python3 -c "`echo -e 'import time\nwhile True:\n print(u"\u2571\u2572"[int(time.time() * 100)%2],end="")\n time.sleep(0.001)'`" The neat thing about it is that the randomness comes from the inexactness of time.sleep
• ionelm 14y ago
  You can write it like this: python -c "while 1:import sys,random;sys.stdout.write(random.choice('\/'))" and it's shorter too !