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The interpreter interface resembles that of the UNIX shell, but provides some additional methods of invocation:
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When called with standard input connected to a tty device, it prompts for commands and executes them until an EOF (an end-of-file character, you can produce that with *Ctrl-D* on UNIX or *Ctrl-Z, Enter* on Windows) is read.
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When called with a file name argument or with a file as standard input, it reads and executes a script from that file.
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When called with a directory name argument, it reads and executes an appropriately named script from that directory.
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When called with ``-c command``, it executes the Python statement(s) given as *command*. Here *command* may contain multiple statements separated by newlines. Leading whitespace is significant in Python statements!
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When called with ``-m module-name``, the given module is located on the Python module path and executed as a script.
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In non-interactive mode, the entire input is parsed before it is executed.
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An interface option terminates the list of options consumed by the interpreter, all consecutive arguments will end up in :data:`sys.argv` -- note that the first element, subscript zero (``sys.argv[0]``), is a string reflecting the program's source.
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Execute the Python code in *command*. *command* can be one ore more statements separated by newlines, with significant leading whitespace as in normal module code.
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If this option is given, the first element of :data:`sys.argv` will be ``"-c"`` and the current directory will be added to the start of :data:`sys.path` (allowing modules in that directory to be imported as top level modules).