[Tutor] Calling Program within Program

[Modulok]

Patty,

I didn't read through your code, but to call an external program see
the 'subprocess' module in the standard library:
http://docs.python.org/library/subprocess.html

-Modulok-


On 12/9/10, patty at cruzio.com <patty at cruzio.com> wrote:
>
> Hello:
>
> I would like to know how to call a program from within a program and what
> directory I should place one small program file in.  I am running Python
> 2.6.6 and Windows 7.
>
> I have a directory called  C:\Users\StarShip\PyProgs and it has the files
> BreakersCafe.txt and BreakersCafe.py.  This is my primary program running
> fine.
>
> I have a subdirectory called C:\Users\StarShip\PyProg \PicturesForTesting
> and another subdirectory C:\Users\StarShip\PyProgs\CustomFunctions with
> various program files, functions defined  in them, etc.  which I import in
> my primary program.   For example:
>
>  def Newbanner():
>     print "\n                       Alternate Selections\n"
>
> Now I have the small program below which is fully self-contained and I
> want to execute it from within  BreakersCafe.txt. I would like to use
> raw_input and if statement for simple yes/no asking if they would like to
> see this BeveragesMenu.txt and have it as the last 3-4 lines of the
> main().
>
> The only directory of these three that has __init__ is
>    C:\Users\StarShip\PyProgs\CustomFunctions
> and as you can see, the program below is not a function, it has no 'def'
> anything.  I get 'NameError: global name 'BeveragesMenu' is not defined'
> when I run this in IDLE.  I suppose I _could_ make this a function :} but
> it is likely doable to call a program as a program, right?  I am also
> compiling to a .pyw file where applicable.
>
> Thanks for the help.
>
> Patty
>
> """
> This is C:\Users\StarShip\PyProgs\BeveragesMenu.txt and BeveragesMenu.py.
> Program file for displaying an image using Tkinter built-in GUI functions.
>  open root window, open file descriptor for image, open new window file
> descriptor to manipulate with Tkinter Label library function.
>
> Pic needs to be displayed as a banner. Uses the compound="top" argument to
> do this.
>
> -->  take out the pack()function didn't work, pack()is required
>
> Uses   import Tkinter
>
> Program using new breaker's jpg picture; bar choices are not selectable
> """
>
>
> import Tkinter
> import ImageTk
>
> rootwindow = Tkinter.Tk()
>
> fhdl=
> ImageTk.Image.open("C:\Users\StarShip\PyProgs\PicturesForTesting\houseimage.jpg")
> image_var = ImageTk.PhotoImage(fhdl)
>
> whdl = Tkinter.Label(rootwindow, compound="top", image=image_var,
> text="\n\n!!!WELCOME TO BREAKER'S BREAKFAST BAR!!!\n\n\nBeverage Choices:
> Sparkling Water;  Milk;  Orange Juice;  Apple Juice  *OR*\n\n  **From Our
> Bar**    Smoothie;  Breakers Sun Tea;  Chai;  Cafe Mocha;  Latte;
> Mimosa")
>
> whdl.pack()
> rootwindow.mainloop()
>
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