In Linux and OSX you can create a bash script to do this for you. For
example:
#!/bin/sh
python /path/to/script.py $@
As for Windows, I think you can do something similar, I don't know batch
very well.
Alex
On 04/08/2011 02:02 PM, James Fort wrote:
Hello SeaPIG,
I wonder if anyone knows how to address the following issue.I looked
in a book and Googled for a while and couldn't find what I'm looking for.
I want to have a directory or set of directories that contain Python
scripts which I can execute from anywhere in my file system.Right now,
I'm concerned with Windows XP, but I may want to do the same in Mac
OSX and Linux in the future.Essentially, I want to by able to type:
currentDir>>>python script.py arg1 arg2
Where arg1 and arg2 might be files in the current directory that act
as inputs to the script and script.py is a script that resides in
another directory.
Here are some ideas I considered:
* Setting the PYTHONPATH variable to include a directory where
script.py is stored.This did not work.It seems to only work for
importing modules once the Python interpreter is already invoked.
* I read online and in a book that you can set "#!/usr/bin/python"
as the first line in a script, assuming that this is the full
path to the interpreter, put the script in /usr/bin or any other
directory to which PATH points, and run the script using
">>>script.py".I read that this is only an option in Unix,
however, and it doesn't allow me to specify the version of
Python I want to use as would be possible if I prefixed the
script submission command with ">>>python26 script.py".This also
precludes me from using ">>>run script.py" from within Ipython.
Does anyone know how to handle this?I noticed that I run the same
script by copying the script into the directories in which I want to
run it, but when I make revisions to the script, I have different
versions sitting in different directories, which is becoming very
difficult to manage.
Thanks,
James
