On Jun 21, 9:12 pm, Adam Chapman <adamchapman1...@hotmail.co.uk> wrote: > On Jun 21, 8:00 pm, Ethan Furman <et...@stoneleaf.us> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Adam Chapman wrote: > > > Thanks Ethan > > > > No way could I have worked that out in my state of stress! > > > > For your second idea, would I need to type that into the python command > > > line interface (the one that looks like a DOS window? > > > If you are actually in a python CLI, at the top of that screen does it > > say something like > > > Python 2.5.4 (r254:67916, Dec 23 2008, 15:10:54) [MSC v.1310 32 bit > > (Intel)] on win32 > > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. > > > ? > > > If yes, then what I wrote earlier should actually work (I downloaded > > jBoost and looked at the nfold.py script). Here it is again: > > > --> import os > > --> os.chdir('path/to/nfold.py') # don't include nfold.py ;) > > --> import nfold > > --> import sys > > --> sys.argv = ["nfold.py", "--folds=5", "--data=spambase.data", > > ... "--spec=spambase.spec", "--rounds=500", "--tree=ADD_ALL", > > ... "--generate" ] > > ... > > --> nfold.main() > > > I fixed the sys.argv line from last time. > > > Good luck! > > > ~Ethan~ > > Thanks to both of you for your help. > > It's getting late here, I'll give it another try tomorrow
I've added the python directories to the environment variable "path" in my computer (http://showmedo.com/videotutorials/video? name=960000&fromSeriesID=96), which means I can now call python from the windows DOS-style command prompt. My formatting must be wrong when calling the nfold.py script to run. My connad prompt call and the computer's response look like this: C:\Users\Adam\Desktop\JBOOST\jboost-2.2\jboost-2.2\scripts>nfold.py nfold.py File "C:\Users\Adam\Desktop\JBOOST\jboost-2.2\jboost-2.2\scripts \nfold.py", line 13 print 'Usage: nfold.py <--booster=boosttype> <--folds=number> [-- generate | --dir=dir] [--data=file --spec=file] [--rounds=number -- tree=treetype]' ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax What I dont understand is that some of the parameters in the syntax it printed back are in <> brackets, and others in [] brackets. I assume this is something a regular python user could notice straight away. Please let me know, I'd be very grateful -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list