As an old Perl-hack I really miss the convenience of one-line programs where I can easily add block structure. This script emulates the behaviors of perl -e, perl -n and perl -p using braces ({ and }) to generate Pythonesque indentation. There may be other ways to get around this but the goal is to make one-liners as easy as we expect.
Examples:
` >./pb 'for j in range(1,10) { for k in range(0,j) { sys.stdout.write(".") } sys.stdout.write("\n") }' . .. ... .... ..... ...... ....... ........ ......... `
PS. I know this one is very easy as a true Python one-liner:
` >python -c 'print "\n".join("."*j for j in range (1,10))' . .. ... .... ..... ...... ....... ........ ......... `
