Executing a python script with arguments from a python script

[olaufr]

Hi,

I need to call a python script, with command line arguments (it is an
autonomous script with a __main__), from within another python script.
Can I use exec() or execfile() for this? How to pass the arguments?

Thanks,

Olivier.

 

[James Stroud]

Hi,

I need to call a python script, with command line arguments (it is an
autonomous script with a __main__), from within another python script.
Can I use exec() or execfile() for this? How to pass the arguments?

Thanks,

Olivier.

Obligatory "ugh."

Are you sure you want to do that? Just make the part you want to execute into a
function and then import it as a module. You will thank me later.

To reluctantly answer your question: see os.system.

But don't see os.system. Use python like python.

James

 

[Larry Bates]

You can pass arguments into a python script, see getopt module.
Then to call an external script you would use subsystem module
(or os.system if you are on earlier version of python).

If you can, just make the other python program into a
function and import it as James Stroud suggests in a separate
post.

 

[James Stroud]

You can pass arguments into a python script, see getopt module.
Then to call an external script you would use subsystem module
(or os.system if you are on earlier version of python).

I think getopt is a little dated. Try optparse. To quote the python
documentation, it is a "More powerful command line option parser".

http://docs.python.org/lib/module-optparse.html

James