[Tutor] Communicating Between Programs Using Raw Inputs (con'd)

[Christopher King]

Well, that's a trick me and jake learned in a book to stop the program
from changing.

On Saturday, June 18, 2011, aditya <nauty.me04 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 9:35 PM, Jacob Bender <benderjacob44 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Dear Tutors,
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> Alright, I'm using linux (ubuntu) and I took all of your advice and I got something that works and doesn't work at the same time. Here's the source code for my two programs called Lock and Key:
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> Lock.py:
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> password = "a"
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> psswd_try = raw_input("What's the password? ")
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> if psswd_try == password:
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>     print "correct!!!"
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>     raw_input()
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> else:
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>     print "wrong"
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>     raw_input()
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> Why do you need to call raw_input() again?  You are giving the input only once so remove raw_input() from both if and else , that should do the work
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>  Key.py:
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> import sys
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> sys.stdout.write("a")
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> In the linux terminal I ran this command(they were both in my home folder, so no directories were needed):
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> python Key.py | python Lock.py
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> And all went well except for an EOF error caused by the raw_input inside the "if" statement in my Lock program. However I did get it to print "correct", so I know sys.stdout.write() works for what I want it to, but I don't want the EOF error. Here's the output:
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> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "Lock.py", line 7, in <module>
>     raw_input()
> EOFError: EOF when reading a line
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> Please help me get rid of it because I couldn't find a sys.stdout.close() command or any other std command that would help.
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> Thanks!
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> RegardsAditya
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