Help with python output redirection

fatal.serpent fatal.serpent at gmail.com
Sat Apr 15 10:36:30 EDT 2006


Thank you. Also this script is PublicDomain right?
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Apr 2006 16:59:13 -0700, fatalserpent wrote:
>
> > Here is the basic code (yes, I know its tiny).
> >
> > x = ['print "x =", x', 'for m in x: print m']
> > print "x =", x
> > for m in x: print m
> >
> > I want to modify this so it will output to a file called 1. What I want
> > is to have that file direct its output to a file called 2 and 2 direct
> > to 3 and so on. Hopefully this will be an easy-to-answer question. THX
> > in advance.
>
> From the shell, you are probably doing something like this:
>
> $ python mymodule.py
>
> Change it to this:
>
> $ python mymodule.py > 2
> $ python 2 > 3
> $ python 3 > 4
>
> and so on.
>
> Alternatively, you can do this:
>
> x = ['f = file("2", "w")', 'print >>f, "x =", x',
>      'for m in x: >>f, print m']
> print >>f, "x =", x
> for m in x: print >>f, m
>
> I'll leave changing the file name from "2" to "3" etc. as an exercise for
> you.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Steven.




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