Re: running a script with an input file

[Fredrik Lundh]

David Bikard wrote:

I'd like to run a program so that it reads the input() or raw_input()
statements from an input file instead of
reading from keyboard. I'd also like it to write the print statements in
an output file rather than on the screen.

I'm on windows XP and when I run:

prog_name.py input_file output_file

I get an EOF error.

What should I do to make this work?

Was that supposed to be

prog_name.py <input_file >output_file

? (< and does i/o redirection; random google link:

http://www.ss64.com/ntsyntax/redirection.html

If you want to do the same thing from inside the program, you can do:

import sys

sys.stdin = open("input_file")
sys.stdout = open("output_file", "w")

before you start reading or writing stuff.

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