Re: [Tutor] input and output files from terminal

2008-04-17 Thread Alan Gauld
"Brain Stormer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > Thanks for the file direction method but how do I get the names of > the files > so I can use it inside my program. I'm not sure I understand. Thepoint of using redirection is that your code doesn't need to know anything about the files, it just read

Re: [Tutor] input and output files from terminal

2008-04-17 Thread Brain Stormer
Actually, Let me take that back with the raw_input comment since it is not the idle issue but I didn't want to the program to be interactive so I didn't want to wait for someone to put the information and press enter. Thanks for the file direction method but how do I get the names of the files so I

Re: [Tutor] input and output files from terminal

2008-04-14 Thread Alan Gauld
"Brain Stormer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote >I have a python program which works fine when run using idle but I >would > like call the program from the terminal. > > python test.py -i inputfile -o outputfile Easier to use file redirection: python test.py < inputfile > outputfile The -i flag in

Re: [Tutor] input and output files from terminal

2008-04-14 Thread Brain Stormer
I used the optparse module since that is exactly what I wanted. Here is my code: import sys from optparse import OptionParser import os parser = OptionParser() parser.add_option("-i", "--input", dest="infile", help="input FILE to convert", metavar="FILE") parser.add_option("-o", "--output", dest

Re: [Tutor] input and output files from terminal

2008-04-14 Thread bhaaluu
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 12:55 PM, Brain Stormer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a python program which works fine when run using idle but I would > like call the program from the terminal. > > python test.py -i inputfile -o outputfile > > I tried with raw_input but that only works in idle. Can

Re: [Tutor] input and output files from terminal

2008-04-14 Thread linuxian iandsd
i think you need to try : cat input.txt | /usr/bin/python test.py >output.txt > ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

Re: [Tutor] input and output files from terminal

2008-04-14 Thread v2punkt0
look at the OptParse module, with this u can easily realize such things. http://docs.python.org/lib/module-optparse.html On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 12:55:07PM -0400, Brain Stormer wrote: > I have a python program which works fine when run using idle but I would > like call the program from the termi

[Tutor] input and output files from terminal

2008-04-14 Thread Brain Stormer
I have a python program which works fine when run using idle but I would like call the program from the terminal. python test.py -i inputfile -o outputfile I tried with raw_input but that only works in idle. Can this be achieved? Thanks ___ Tutor maill