python hello.py hello_msg("Hello no", 3)??? Help, please!

[Carl]

This is perhaps a very simple and stupid question!

How do you run a specific function (with actual values for the parameters)
within a module from the command prompt? That is, with "python ..."

For instance, how do I run hello_msg("Hello no ", 3), which is a function
within the module hello.py, from the console?

def hello_msg(msg, num):
print msg + str(num ** 3) +'!'
#hello_msg("Hello no ", 3)

Carl

 

[Peter Hansen]

This is perhaps a very simple and stupid question!

How do you run a specific function (with actual values for the parameters)
within a module from the command prompt? That is, with "python ..."

For instance, how do I run hello_msg("Hello no ", 3), which is a function
within the module hello.py, from the console?

def hello_msg(msg, num):
print msg + str(num ** 3) +'!'
#hello_msg("Hello no ", 3)

Use the -c option.

python -c "import modulename; modulename.hello_msg('test', 5)"

 

[Carl]

Use the -c option.

python -c "import modulename; modulename.hello_msg('test', 5)"

Thanks, that was incredibly simple!

Carl

 

[Chris]

Use the -c option.

python -c "import modulename; modulename.hello_msg('test', 5)"

Or, from the command prompt, 'import modulename'

 

[Peter Hansen]

Peter Hansen wrote:



Or, from the command prompt, 'import modulename'

??

My example _was_ from the command prompt, and your approach
doesn't execute hello_msg() as the OP requested.

-Peter