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("Hell o 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("Hel lo no ", 3)

Carl

[Peter Hansen]

Re: python hello.py hello_msg(&quot ;Hello no", 3)??? Help, please!

Carl wrote:
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> 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("Hell o 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("Hel lo no ", 3)[/color]

Use the -c option.

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

[Carl]

Re: python hello.py hello_msg(&quot ;Hello no", 3)??? Help, please!

Peter Hansen wrote:
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> Carl wrote:
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>> 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("Hell o 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("Hel lo no ", 3)[/color]
>
> Use the -c option.
>
> python -c "import modulename; modulename.hell o_msg('test', 5)"[/color]

Thanks, that was incredibly simple!

Carl

[Chris]

Re: python hello.py hello_msg(&quot ;Hello no", 3)??? Help, please!

Peter Hansen wrote:
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> Carl wrote:
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>> 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("Hell o 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("Hel lo no ", 3)[/color]
>
> Use the -c option.
>
> python -c "import modulename; modulename.hell o_msg('test', 5)"[/color]

Or, from the command prompt, 'import modulename'

[Peter Hansen]

Re: python hello.py hello_msg(&quot ;Hello no", 3)??? Help, please!

Chris wrote:
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> Peter Hansen wrote:
>
>[color=green]
>>Carl wrote:
>>
>>[color=darkred]
>>>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("Hell o 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)[/color]
>>
>>Use the -c option.
>>
>>python -c "import modulename; modulename.hell o_msg('test', 5)"[/color]
>
> Or, from the command prompt, 'import modulename'[/color]

??

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

-Peter