python 2.7.12 on Linux behaving differently than on Windows

Tue Dec 6 12:36:23 EST 2016

On 06/12/2016 17:00, MRAB wrote:
> On 2016年12月06日 13:52, BartC wrote:

>> Some special syntax is known about: | < and > for example. % less so
>> (I've never, ever used it in live input AFAIK).
>>> [snip]
>> You've never used ImageMagick?
>> If you want to shrink an image to half its size:
>> convert dragon.gif -resize 50% half_dragon.gif

No. But that '50%' is seen by apps (eg. with Python's 'print sys.argv') 
on both Windows and Linux.
However, I can imagine that a calculator app might have trouble with 
some expressions:
 calculate 3*5
This expression might be seen as 345 if there happens to be file called 
'345' lying around.
-- 
Bartc