Python Error from Apress book

[Matthew Edmondson]

I'm running XP SP3. The program now works great from either of the
directories, as long as include 'python' before it. As far as looking at the
error with stack trace, I really don't know enough yet to know how to do
that. I'm running the file from command line, because I'm not sure how to
run it referencing other files from idle. Lot to learn.....

Once again, thanks a ton for all of the help.

Matt

On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 2:35 AM, Dave Angel <davea at ieee.org> wrote:

>
>
> Gabriel Genellina wrote:
>
>> <div class="moz-text-flowed" style="font-family: -moz-fixed">En Tue, 07
>> Jul 2009 09:55:13 -0300, Dave Angel <davea at ieee.org> escribió:
>>
>>> Gabriel Genellina wrote:
>>>
>>>> En Mon, 06 Jul 2009 19:56:40 -0300, matt0177 <matt0177 at gmail.com>
>>>> escribió:
>>>>
>>>
>>  When I try to run the command as outlined in
>>>>> the book "simple_markup2.py < test_input.txt > test_output.html i get
>>>>> the
>>>>> following error every time.
>>>>>
>>>>> IOError: [Errno 9] Bad file descriptor
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> That's a Windows problem. When you execute the script as itself (either
>>>> as you do in the command line, or by double-clicking on it), it doesn't have
>>>> valid standard handles.
>>>> You have to invoke Python explicitely:
>>>>
>>>> python simple_markup2.py < test_input.txt > test_output.html
>>>>
>>>> (you may need to specify the full path to python.exe, or add the
>>>> directory where Python is installed to your system PATH).
>>>>
>>>>  I use stdout this way all the time, with no problem (python 2.6,
>>> Windows XP).  But as you point out, stdin redirection doesn't seem to work
>>> using the file associations.  I do get a different error though. When I look
>>> at sys.stdin, it shows an open file, with handle of zero, as expected.  But
>>> when I do a raw_input(), it gets:
>>>     EOFError: EOF when reading a line
>>>
>>
>> I think the error depends on the specific OS version/service pack. But at
>> least on XP this appears to fix it:
>>
>> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/321788/en-us
>>
>>  Thanks for the link.  Looking at that one, it indicates that Windows 2000
> fixed it in SP4, and XP fixed it in Sp1.  But I'm already running XP SP3, so
> I wonder if it's something new.
>
> Matt, what OS version are you running, and exactly what is happening when
> the error occurs?  (you should be able to figure that out from the stack
> trace)
>
>
> DaveA
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/attachments/20090708/231ac350/attachment.html>