On 20 Aug 2005 22:53:42 -0700, Eric Lavigne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Here is a shell command (MS-DOS):
> debug\curve-fit <input.txt >output.txt
>
>And here is a Python script that *should* do the same thing (and almost
>does):
>
> import os
>
> inputfilename = 'input.txt'
> outputfilename = 'output.txt'
>
> inputfile = open(inputfilename,'r')
> outputfile = open(outputfilename,'w')
> inputstream,outputstream = os.popen2("debug\\curve-fit")
> inputstream.write(inputfile.read())
> inputfile.close()
> inputstream.close()
> outputfile.write(outputstream.read())
> outputstream.close()
> outputfile.close()
>
>On a side note, I am very new to Python so I would appreciate any
>comments on style, or suggestions for simpler ways to write something
>like this (seems overkill for matching one line of shell), or more
>portable ways to write it (requires '\\' on windows but '/' on linux).
A shorter python program would be:
os.command("debug\\curve-fit <input.txt >output.txt")
If you don't like the doubled \\, you could write:
os.command(r"debug\curve-fit <input.txt >output.txt")
For portability regarding \\ versus /, look at the os.path module.
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