Input from the same file as the script

[Georg Brandl]

poggle.themammal at gmail.com wrote:
> Can the input to the python script be given from the same file as the
> script itself. e.g., when we execute a python script with the command
> 'python <scriptName', can the input be given in someway ?
> 
> When I ran the below the python interpreter gave an error.

*sigh* Why do you think that we could guess what error this may be?

In this case, it is likely a SyntaxError because you used input() instead
of raw_input().

> e.g.,
> scriptName:
> -----------
> x = input("The value of x is taken from the source code file itself as
> input is redirected to it")
> 
> print x
> 
> "Value intended for the variable x"
> 

Georg