"Ashley Booth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
> So far I can get it to read the directory fine but it ends up just
> opening the script I want the files to be fed into instead of giving
> it the input and output to run and running it. Any ideas?
>
> Here is what I have so far:
>
> import sys, os
>
> indir = raw_input('input directory path ') # input directory
> script1 = os.system(raw_input('python script path '))
os.system only returnms the error code of the operation
not the results, so script1 will usually contain 0 (for success).
You need to look at the subprocess module and the
examples of replacing popen. Specifically using the
communicate() method of Popen.
> for j in os.listdir(indir):
> input = os.path.join(indir,j)
> output = os.path.join(indir,j.split('rovctd')[0]+'.txt')
You might find os.path.basename more reliable here.
> script1(input,output)
This won't work see above.
> If this is going to be too complicated,
No, this is exactly the kind of thing Python is good at.
> I would at least be happy with how to tack on the list
> directory stuff to then of the script1- it would not be a
> stand alone script but at least it would work.
Sorry you lost me there.
Which script? The one above or the ones you are
trying to execute?
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