Question

if I type this into python console

>>> ord(u'⚤')

it work but when I try to put it into python -c from bash

python -c "print ord(u'⚤')"

it throws:

  File "<string>", line 1
    print ord(u'⚤')
                     ^
SyntaxError: EOL while scanning string literal

Anybody know why?

Answer 1

The problem was, when you type ⚤ in bash it overlaping on next character so '⚤' look like this '⚤ and '⚤'. look like this '⚤. when I copy what I typed it show python -c "print ('⚤'')" but display as python -c "print ('⚤')" so it look like correct code.

So my code look like this in terminal

python -c "print ord(u'⚤)"

but code that I run was like this

python -c "print ord(u'⚤')"

because I copied that character from other place in my terminal and I select by accedent 2 characters the one I wanted and the one that was overlaping.