Ernesto wrote:
> The issue is I haven't done very much batch programming. I need to
> prompt the user for input and each batch file is in a different
> directory. How do I change directories and prompt for user input?
Ah, now you're talking things where Python, while not strictly required,
can start to make things easier. :-)
To run external things like batch files, you import the "os" module and
use the system() function:
import os
os.system('somebatchfile.bat')
Since you're prompting the user for input first, presumably the input is
passed to the batch file in some way, like so:
input = raw_input('Enter your incredibly useful info now:')
("raw_input" is a builtin... good to learn about as many of those as you
can handle by reading the docs here:
http://docs.python.org/lib/built-in-funcs.html . Some of those are
absolutely not important to you at this early stage, others are.)
Then with the input you've collected, you could pass it to the batch
file like so:
os.system('myfile.bat %s' % input)
The %s and % together result in whatever text the user entered being
added on the command line for the call to myfile.bat, exactly as though
it had been executed manually with the same input.
-Peter
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