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Remove confusing paragraph -- this is relevant only to advanced users anyway and does not belong into the tutorial.

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Georg Brandl 2010-12-28 09:18:24 +00:00
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@ -58,14 +58,6 @@ Some Python modules are also useful as scripts. These can be invoked using
``python -m module [arg] ...``, which executes the source file for *module* as
if you had spelled out its full name on the command line.
Note that there is a difference between ``python file`` and ``python
<file``. In the latter case, input requests from the program, such as calling
``sys.stdin.read()``, are satisfied from *file*. Since this file has already
been read until the end by the parser before the program starts executing, the
program will encounter end-of-file immediately. In the former case (which is
usually what you want) they are satisfied from whatever file or device is
connected to standard input of the Python interpreter.
When a script file is used, it is sometimes useful to be able to run the script
and enter interactive mode afterwards. This can be done by passing :option:`-i`
before the script. (This does not work if the script is read from standard