It's from a tutorial on the google cloud platform, they call python from the Linux Shell. I'm totally new to gcp and linux, please help me, where can I find some exhaustive documentation for python tools in Linux?
python -c 'import base64, sys, json; \
img = base64.b64encode(open(sys.argv[1], "rb").read()); \
print json.dumps({"key":"1", "image_bytes": {"b64": img}})' \
flower1.jpg > request.json
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!
the -c flag means execute the following command as interpreted by this program.
Doc: https://askubuntu.com/questions/831847/what-is-the-sh-c-command
-c stand for cmd which allows you to pass your code as a string. This feature is available even outside of google-cloud-platform. you can check other available options using python -h