Write a Source File with a lot of directions attached

[lostbuttrying]

So here is the question:

Write a python source file that defines functions, printForward(list), printReverse(list), and getLength(list), which prints the elements of a list (one element on each line) in order, prints the elements of a list in reverse order, and returns the number of elements in the list, respectively. Write another Python source file (which can be executed from the command line) that imports the original module and demonstrates its functions by calling them.

I'm not really sure where to begin. Can anyone help point me in the right direction......

[bartonc]

First, you need tell your operating system (is it windows?) where python is.
Next, you need a directory (folder) to put your modules into.
After that, you need to be able to start a command line (which depend on your OS) and cd (change directory) to that folder.

If you need help with any of these, just say so.

Once you have that, save a text document named anythingyouwant.py (for example).
In that module define your functions like this:

def somefunction(arguments):
    pass # put you code here

Then in a second file calledfromcmdline.py (for example) write

import sys
import anythingyouwant
 
anythingyouwant.somefunction(sys.argv[1:])

Then on the command line write

python calledfromcmdline.py here is a list of args

[lostbuttrying]

I'm sorry to be slow, but I understand the first part...but where does the printForward(list), printReverse(list), etc. come in? Or is that the functions I'm supposed to be writing? Thank you again for the help.

[bartonc]

Once you have that, save a text document named anythingyouwant.py (for example).
In that module define your functions like this:

def printForward(arguments):
    for word in arguments:
        print word
 
 

Then in a second file calledfromcmdline.py (for example) write


import sys
import anythingyouwant

anythingyouwant.printForward(sys.argv[1:])


Then on the command line write

python calledfromcmdline.py here is a list of args