running an existing script

[Adam Chapman]

On Jun 22, 5:51 pm, Ethan Furman <et... at stoneleaf.us> wrote:
> Adam Chapman wrote:
> > On Jun 22, 4:54 pm, Adam Chapman <adamchapman1... at hotmail.co.uk>
> > wrote:
> >> On Jun 21, 9:12 pm, Adam Chapman <adamchapman1... at hotmail.co.uk>
> >> wrote:
>
> >>> 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
> >> I've added the python directories to the environment variable "path"
> >> in my computer (http://showmedo.com/videotutorials/video?
> >> name=960000&fromSeriesID=96), which means I can now call python from
> >> the windows DOS-style command prompt.
>
> >> My formatting must be wrong when calling the nfold.py script to run.
> >> My connad prompt call and the computer's response look like this:
>
> >> C:\Users\Adam\Desktop\JBOOST\jboost-2.2\jboost-2.2\scripts>nfold.py
> >> nfold.py
> >>   File "C:\Users\Adam\Desktop\JBOOST\jboost-2.2\jboost-2.2\scripts
> >> \nfold.py", line 13
> >>     print 'Usage: nfold.py <--booster=boosttype> <--folds=number> [--
> >> generate | --dir=dir] [--data=file --spec=file] [--rounds=number --
> >> tree=treetype]'
>
> >> ^
> >> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>
> >> What I dont understand is that some of the parameters in the syntax it
> >> printed back are in <> brackets, and others in [] brackets.
>
> >> I assume this is something a regular python user could notice straight
> >> away.
>
> >> Please let me know, I'd be very grateful
>
> > I just tried
>
> > nfold.py --booster=Adaboost --folds=5 --data=spambase.data --
> > spec=spambase.spec --rounds=500 --tree=ADD_ALL --generate --dir=C:
> > \Users\Adam\Desktop\cvdata
>
> > in the dos-style command prompt. It didn'g vive a syntax error this
> > time, it just repeated my command back to me in text. I assume I
> > called code correctly, but it didn't make a new folder full of data
> > like it should have.
>
> Which version of jBoost, and which version of Python?
>
> ~Ethan~

jboost 2.2, python 2.7

somehow I've just managed to delete all of the code in nfold.py, now
downloading it again...