[Tutor] finalizing code

[Prasad, Ramit]

From: tutor-bounces+ramit.prasad=jpmorgan.com at python.org [mailto:tutor-bounces+ramit.prasad=jpmorgan.com at python.org] On Behalf Of Bspymaster
Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2011 5:54 PM
To: tutor at python.org
Subject: [Tutor] finalizing code

Hello! I recently started programming in python (I use IDLE with python 2.7 on ubuntu 11.04, by the way) and recently made a program (no interface) that launches other programs. The problem I'm having is that when I gave my friend the code, he had to get an editor to use the code. How do I make it so that when you open the program, it starts the code (so anyone can use it, not just those who have idle and know ow to program python)? Sorry if this is unclear. I basically want to make a stand- alone command line application (or one that boots in terminal). It's very basic and runs like so (except longer and slightly more complex):

loop = 1
while loop == 1:
    choice = raw_input(">")
    if choice == "prog1":
        print "Launching Prog1"
        os.system("prog1")
        loop = 0
    else:
        print "invalid program. Try again."


God Bless,
Ben Schwabe
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If it is just in the module directly, you can probably just say 'python file.py'
It is usually recommended to stick everything into different functions then at the end say

If __name__=="__main__":
    function()

Ramit


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