running an existing script

[Adam Chapman]

On Jun 21, 8:00 pm, Ethan Furman <et... at stoneleaf.us> wrote:
> Adam Chapman wrote:
> > Thanks Ethan
>
> > No way could I have worked that out in my state of stress!
>
> > For your second idea, would I need to type that into the python command
> > line interface (the one that looks like a DOS window?
>
> If you are actually in a python CLI, at the top of that screen does it
> say something like
>
> Python 2.5.4 (r254:67916, Dec 23 2008, 15:10:54) [MSC v.1310 32 bit
> (Intel)] on win32
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>
> ?
>
> If yes, then what I wrote earlier should actually work (I downloaded
> jBoost and looked at the nfold.py script).  Here it is again:
>
> --> import os
> --> os.chdir('path/to/nfold.py') # don't include nfold.py  ;)
> --> import nfold
> --> import sys
> --> sys.argv = ["nfold.py", "--folds=5", "--data=spambase.data",
> ... "--spec=spambase.spec", "--rounds=500", "--tree=ADD_ALL",
> ... "--generate" ]
> ...
> --> nfold.main()
>
> I fixed the sys.argv line from last time.
>
> Good luck!
>
> ~Ethan~

Thanks to both of you for your help.

It's getting late here, I'll give it another try tomorrow