running an existing script

[Adam Chapman]

On Jun 22, 5:51 pm, Adam Chapman <adamchapman1... at hotmail.co.uk>
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> On Jun 22, 5:51 pm, Ethan Furman <et... at stoneleaf.us> wrote:
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> > Adam Chapman wrote:
> > > On Jun 22, 4:54 pm, Adam Chapman <adamchapman1... at hotmail.co.uk>
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> > >> On Jun 21, 9:12 pm, Adam Chapman <adamchapman1... at hotmail.co.uk>
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> > >>> On Jun 21, 8:00 pm, Ethan Furman <et... at stoneleaf.us> wrote:
> > >>>> Adam Chapman wrote:
> > >>>>> Thanks Ethan
> > >>>>> No way could I have worked that out in my state of stress!
> > >>>>> For your second idea, would I need to type that into the python command
> > >>>>> line interface (the one that looks like a DOS window?
> > >>>> If you are actually in a python CLI, at the top of that screen does it
> > >>>> say something like
> > >>>> Python 2.5.4 (r254:67916, Dec 23 2008, 15:10:54) [MSC v.1310 32 bit
> > >>>> (Intel)] on win32
> > >>>> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> > >>>> ?
> > >>>> If yes, then what I wrote earlier should actually work (I downloaded
> > >>>> jBoost and looked at the nfold.py script).  Here it is again:
> > >>>> --> import os
> > >>>> --> os.chdir('path/to/nfold.py') # don't include nfold.py  ;)
> > >>>> --> import nfold
> > >>>> --> import sys
> > >>>> --> sys.argv = ["nfold.py", "--folds=5", "--data=spambase.data",
> > >>>> ... "--spec=spambase.spec", "--rounds=500", "--tree=ADD_ALL",
> > >>>> ... "--generate" ]
> > >>>> ...
> > >>>> --> nfold.main()
> > >>>> I fixed the sys.argv line from last time.
> > >>>> Good luck!
> > >>>> ~Ethan~
> > >>> Thanks to both of you for your help.
> > >>> It's getting late here, I'll give it another try tomorrow
> > >> I've added the python directories to the environment variable "path"
> > >> in my computer (http://showmedo.com/videotutorials/video?
> > >> name=960000&fromSeriesID=96), which means I can now call python from
> > >> the windows DOS-style command prompt.
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> > >> My formatting must be wrong when calling the nfold.py script to run.
> > >> My connad prompt call and the computer's response look like this:
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> > >> C:\Users\Adam\Desktop\JBOOST\jboost-2.2\jboost-2.2\scripts>nfold.py
> > >> nfold.py
> > >>   File "C:\Users\Adam\Desktop\JBOOST\jboost-2.2\jboost-2.2\scripts
> > >> \nfold.py", line 13
> > >>     print 'Usage: nfold.py <--booster=boosttype> <--folds=number> [--
> > >> generate | --dir=dir] [--data=file --spec=file] [--rounds=number --
> > >> tree=treetype]'
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> > >> ^
> > >> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
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> > >> What I dont understand is that some of the parameters in the syntax it
> > >> printed back are in <> brackets, and others in [] brackets.
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> > >> I assume this is something a regular python user could notice straight
> > >> away.
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> > >> Please let me know, I'd be very grateful
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> > > I just tried
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> > > nfold.py --booster=Adaboost --folds=5 --data=spambase.data --
> > > spec=spambase.spec --rounds=500 --tree=ADD_ALL --generate --dir=C:
> > > \Users\Adam\Desktop\cvdata
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> > > in the dos-style command prompt. It didn'g vive a syntax error this
> > > time, it just repeated my command back to me in text. I assume I
> > > called code correctly, but it didn't make a new folder full of data
> > > like it should have.
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> > Which version of jBoost, and which version of Python?
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> > ~Ethan~
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> jboost 2.2, python 2.7
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> somehow I've just managed to delete all of the code in nfold.py, now
> downloading it again...

Thanks a lot, must be getting close now...
I changed the indentation one lines 136-168, and put in the command
window:

nfold.py --booster=Adaboost --folds=5 --data=spambase.data --
spec=spambase.spec --rounds=500 --tree=ADD_ALL --generate

no syntax errors this time, it just said:
nfold.py: Your CLASSPATH is not set. You must place jboost.jar in your
CLASSPATH.

is that the chdir() command in python? and can I somehow set that in
the dos command window?