Re: [Tutor] help with running perl script that writes to a text file
3n2 Solutions wrote: Hello, I want to automate the following manual process from DOS promp: c:/scripts/perlperl fix.pl base.gtx base.txt Here is my python script: path=c:/scripts/perl/ subprocess.call(['perl','fix.pl','base.gtx base.txt',path]) I also tried this alternative: subprocess.Popen(['perl','fix.pl','base.gtx base.txt',path]) #same result from this method. The above script generates the base.txt file but has no content in it. any ideas as to why the resulting text file is empty? Am I using the correct python commands to run the above manual process? I'm surprised that base.txt is generated at all, I'd expect fix.pl to look for a file named base.gtx base.txt and complain when it doesn't find that. I think the following should work: with open(c:/scripts/perl/base.txt, w) as f: subprocess.check_call( [perl, c:/scripts/perl/fix.pl, c:/scripts/perl/base.gtx], stdout=f) ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
Re: [Tutor] help with running perl script that writes to a text file
On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 6:44 PM, 3n2 Solutions 3n2soluti...@gmail.com wrote: I want to automate the following manual process from DOS promp: I agree with Peter's answer. I'd just like to add a generally useless and pedantic comment about the habit of saying DOS prompt. The cmd shell is a Win32 console application, unlike DOS command.com. On 64-bit Windows there isn't even a virtual DOS machine (NTVDM) to run command.com. There, I feel better now. :) ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
Re: [Tutor] help with running perl script that writes to a text file
On 06/02/13 10:58, eryksun wrote: and pedantic comment about the habit of saying DOS prompt. The cmd shell is a Win32 console application, unlike DOS command.com. Yes, but the problem is that Windows now has so many command prompts (cscript, cmd, power shell etc) that the Windows prompt would be meaningless and the cmd prompt too awkward to say, so the DOS prompt is both traditional and sufficiently specific making it the most easily understandable of the likely terms. -- Alan G Author of the Learn to Program web site http://www.alan-g.me.uk/ ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
Re: [Tutor] help with running perl script that writes to a text file
On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 12:47 PM, Alan Gauld alan.ga...@btinternet.com wrote: so the DOS prompt is both traditional and sufficiently specific making it the most easily understandable of the likely terms. DOS prompt is a common idiom, but it bears mentioning now and then that the OS is NT [1], not DOS. That's all; I know I'm being pedantic. Officially the Windows command-line shell is called the command prompt. I call it the shell [2] or command line. Unless someone says PowerShell or 4NT, I assume it's cmd. [1] Windows 8 is NT 6.2.9200 [2] Not the GUI shell, Explorer, which is set here: HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\WinLogon\Shell ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
[Tutor] help with running perl script that writes to a text file
Hello, I want to automate the following manual process from DOS promp: c:/scripts/perlperl fix.pl base.gtx base.txt Here is my python script: path=c:/scripts/perl/ subprocess.call(['perl','fix.pl','base.gtx base.txt',path]) I also tried this alternative: subprocess.Popen(['perl','fix.pl','base.gtx base.txt',path]) #same result from this method. The above script generates the base.txt file but has no content in it. any ideas as to why the resulting text file is empty? Am I using the correct python commands to run the above manual process? I'm using python 2.7 on windows 7 Thanks, Tim ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
Re: [Tutor] help with running perl script that writes to a text file
On 05/02/13 23:44, 3n2 Solutions wrote: I want to automate the following manual process from DOS promp: c:/scripts/perlperl fix.pl base.gtx base.txt Use a DOS batch file, that's what they are there for. If you are not doing any other processing Python is inefficient and overkill for this task. Unless you just want to learn how to use Popen I suppose... path=c:/scripts/perl/ subprocess.call(['perl','fix.pl','base.gtx base.txt',path]) Do you get any error messages on the console? How are you running the python script? -- Alan G Author of the Learn to Program web site http://www.alan-g.me.uk/ ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
