This answer discusses how to run a multi-line Python snippet from the command line in a terminal. I noticed that the answer works great within shell scripts, even with nested indentation, which is very nice, e.g.
#!/bin/bash some_text="Hello world" echo $some_text cat <<EOF | python - import sys; for r in range(3): print r for a in range(2): print "hello" EOF
0 hello hello 1 hello hello 2 hello hello
However, I am having a hard time sharing variables between the shell script and the Python snippet.
How can I collect the output of the python subscript in the bash script? (e.g. in a variable such as
How can I pass a bash variable (e.g.
$some_text) to the Python script?