Index: Doc/tut/tut.tex =================================================================== RCS file: /cvsroot/python/python/dist/src/Doc/tut/tut.tex,v retrieving revision 1.253 diff -c -r1.253 tut.tex *** Doc/tut/tut.tex 28 Sep 2004 16:12:50 -0000 1.253 --- Doc/tut/tut.tex 4 Oct 2004 18:12:20 -0000 *************** *** 196,210 **** with standard input connected to a tty device, it reads and executes commands interactively; when called with a file name argument or with a file as standard input, it reads and executes a \emph{script} from ! that file. A second way of starting the interpreter is \samp{\program{python} \programopt{-c} \var{command} [arg] ...}, which executes the statement(s) in \var{command}, analogous to the shell's \programopt{-c} option. Since Python statements often contain spaces ! or other characters that are special to the shell, it is best to quote \var{command} in its entirety with double quotes. Note that there is a difference between \samp{python file} and \samp{python