Can I load a python program at the interactive >>> prompt?

[walterbyrd]

I am running cygwin on xp.

Much to my annoyance, I can not cut-and-paste from a windows app to
the python prompt. I think I could do this with putty, but I do not
have the permissions to install putty on my xp box.

Can I load a file into the python interactive environment? For
example I have a file called test.py that consists of the following:

print "hello"
print "hello again"

Can I load that file into python at the >>> prompt?

or something like that?

 

[Tim Golden]

I am running cygwin on xp.

Much to my annoyance, I can not cut-and-paste from a windows app to
the python prompt. I think I could do this with putty, but I do not
have the permissions to install putty on my xp box.

I do this all the time. The key (altho' not strictly essential)
is to access the console window Properties from the top-left drop-down
menu and then on the first tab, select Quick Edit. With this, you
can just right-click with the mouse and whatever you had in the
clipboard (as long as it's text) will drop into your Python
session. Whenever I'm posting code snippets here, I always
copy them from the email and do what I've described to run
them in a fresh interpreter session to make sure they work.

Can I load a file into the python interactive environment? For
example I have a file called test.py that consists of the following:

print "hello"
print "hello again"

Can I load that file into python at the >>> prompt?


or something like that?

Well, you can use execfile if you want.

TJG

 

[Tim Golden]

I am running cygwin on xp.

..... and I just noticed this vital bit. So not sure
how much of my other post applies. Sorry. Maybe it'll
help anyway.

TJG

 

[Diez B. Roggisch]

.... and I just noticed this vital bit. So not sure
how much of my other post applies. Sorry. Maybe it'll
help anyway.

Everything. The atrocity that the windows terminal window is isn't
mitigated by an out-of-the-box cygwin. Did anybody *ever* need a
rectangular marking mode?

You could use rxvt. But that's also far from perfect.

Diez