How to convert python script to the text?

[Alex Ivanov]

Hi everybody!
I want automatically create many folders with the python files inside. Those python files I want to fill in with the text, which is python code. So I want to insert that code as a text. The problem is that the code contains commands which are not recognizable as a text. Can you tell me, please, how to force python to consider code as a text.

Thanks in advance.

Here is my code:

import os
import shutil

beginh=0 
beginm=0 
begink=0 

hr=3 # h 
mr=4 # death increment due to foraging
kr=5 # perturbation max and min range difference

directory_name = 'foodPert'
for h in range(beginh, beginh+hr):
    if h == 0:
       d = 100
    if h == 1:
       d = 500
    if h == 2:
       d = 1000
    for m in range(beginm, beginm+mr):
        if m == 0:
           df = 0
        if m == 1:
           df = 0.1
        if m == 2:
           df = 0.2
        if m == 3:
           df = 0.3
        for k in range(begink, begink+kr):
            if k == 0:
                fp = 2
            if k == 1:
                fp = 4
            if k == 2:
                fp = 6
            if k == 3:
                fp = 8
            if k == 4:
                fp = 10
            dirName = directory_name+'_h_'+ str(d) + '_df_' + str(df) + '_fp_' + str(fp) 
            os.mkdir(dirName)

            #make compile.py file
            c = open('/compile.py','w')
            c.close()

            c = open('/compile.py','w')
            # this information I'll put inside the file
            l = ['
                import os
                import shutil
                seeds=5
                beginrep=0
                cpp_name = 'FoodPerturbation.cpp'
                myprogram = directory_name+'_h_'+ str(d) + '_df_' + str(df) + '_fp_' + str(fp) 


                directory_name = directory_name+'_h_'+ str(d) + '_df_' + str(df) + '_fp_' + str(fp) 

                for k in range(beginrep,beginrep+seeds):

                    dirName = directory_name+str(k+1)

                #if directory is not there yet, create it    
                    if not (os.path.isdir('./' + dirName + '/')):
                        os.mkdir(dirName)
                #copy necessary files    
                    shutil.copyfile('random.h',dirName+'/random.h')
                    shutil.copyfile('SocialColony.h',dirName+'/SocialColony.h')
                    shutil.copyfile('SocialPopulation.h',dirName+'/SocialPopulation.h')
                    shutil.copyfile('Individual.h',dirName+'/Individual.h')
                    shutil.copyfile(cpp_name, dirName + '/' + cpp_name)    
                #change to the subdirectory
                    os.chdir(dirName)
                    #compile within subdirectory, creating the executable within subdirectory 
                    os.popen('g++ -g ' + cpp_name + ' -o ' + myprogram)
                   #change back to higher directory 
                    os.chdir('../')
                #make job description files (handy if they have a keyword that distinguishes them, like 'job')
                    job_name='job_' + myprogram +'_s'+str(k+1)

                    f=open(job_name,'w')
                    f.write('#PBS -N dynamics'+'_rep'+str(k+1)+'\n')
                    f.write('#PBS -l walltime=100:00:00\n')
                    f.write('#PBS -l ncpus=2\n')
                    f.write('#PBS -j oe\n')
                    f.write('cd '+ directory_name + '/' + dirName+ '\n')
                    f.write('./' + myprogram + ' ' + str(k+1) + '\n')
                                
                    f.close'
                ]
            for i in l:
                c.write(i)
            c.close

            #make submit.py file
            s = open('/submit.py','w')
            s.close()

            s = open('/compile.py','w')
            # this information I'll put inside the file
            j = ['
                  import os

                  seeds=5
                  beginrep=0

                  for k in range(beginrep,beginrep+seeds):
                     job_name='deathPert_h500_df_0_pr_0.015_per_0.5'+'_s'+str(k+1)
                     os.popen('qsub '+'job_'+job_name)

                  os.chdir('..')
                 '
                 ]
            for i in j:
                s.write(i)
            s.close

[bvdet]

Source code is ascii text in a disc file. Why not read the text from the file? As in:

fn = 'file_read_code.py'

f = open('code.txt', 'w')
f.write(open(fn).read())
f.close()

[dwblas]

You write the info to the file and probably then change the file to executable if on a linux system. So in your example, you would write each item in the list to the file, followed by a newline. Try it with a simple "hello world" type program as a test and if there are problems, post back with a question. But there are very likely much simpler ways to do this so post back with a description of what you would like to accomplish.

Those python files I want to fill in with the text, which is python code.

Why can't you send job info or whatever to a common function along with the directory/path and process it that way. Again, try a simple example program.

Two small things

            #make submit.py file
            s = open('/submit.py','w')
            s.close()
 
            s = open('/compile.py','w')

You don't have to "create" the file first. You can just open [s = open('/compile.py','w' )] and write to it.

                  os.chdir('..')

It is almost always better to use the absolute path, as chdir can cause debugging headaches. Also

f.write('cd '+ directory_name + '/' + dirName+ '\n')
#
# os.path.join solves the path joining problems.
'cd os.path.join(directory_name, dirName, some_other_name) \n'