How to execute Python inline from a bash shell

Question

Is there a Python argument to execute code from the shell without starting up an interactive interpreter or reading from a file? Something similar to:

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Answer 1

Another way is to you use bash redirection:

python <<< 'print "Hi"'

And this works also with perl, ruby, and what not.

p.s.

To save quote ' and " for python code, we can build the block with EOF

c=`cat <