[Tutor] Making a python script to feed files into another python script

[John Fouhy]

On 11/09/2007, Ashley Booth <abooth at stanford.edu> wrote:
> I am trying to create a script that will get files from a directory
> that the user specifies, then feeds the relevant input and output
> (which are input and output paths) into another python script whose
> path is also given by the user. I'm pretty lazy after all and I would
> rather spend my time making tools than doing the busy-work myself.

Hi Ashley,

You've basically got two options:

1. You can build a command line and then use os.system to call it:
       script2 = raw_input('python script path:')
       input, output = # whatever
       os.system('python %s %s %s' % (script2, input, output))

2. You can import your second script and call its main function
directly.  How well this works will depend on the structure of the
second script.

-- 
John.