Intelligent python script

Hi All,
I want to know if it is possible to write an intelligent python script which accepts inputs from a text file (which was intended to be given through keyboard) and executes a program.
Eagerly waiting for reply,
Shyam

The answer is yes, but your question is so vague as to be meaningless. What sort of input? What sort of program?

here is a program that will fulfill your requirements:



but it does not do anything useful.

What do you mean by intelligent? Do you mean read in english text and understand it? That will take a little more work.

Dave - The Developers' Coach

Thanks for the reply,
Sorry for the ambiguous question.
What I meant was-
Instead of giving input through keyboard(STDIN),I want to give inputs through a file.For example, consider a simple C program used as a calculator.Let it accept a keyboard input and based on that, it performs an operation(add,subtract,mul,div). What I want to do is, instead of giving keyboard input,I want to feed it through a file like "input.txt".The content of this file is:
Add
Sub
Mul
Div
Can my excutable (say "calc.exe",the C file being "calc.c" ) take inputs from "input.txt" one by one and perform all the 4 operations one after the other ?How can I do this using python (automating keyboard input) ?
My python script must be intelligent enough to feed these inputs(add,sub,mul,div)one by one to the executable calc.exe.
Regards,
Shyam

If the C program reads input from stdin, then you do not need Python to read the inputs from a file - you can do it on the command line by redirecting stdin using '<'.

e.g.

C:\> calc.exe < input.txt

This will execute calc.exe, reading the input from input.txt as if it came from the keyboard. (In the above example, "C:\> is the Windows DOS prompt, but this will work in both DOS and UNIX).


If you want more control then you can do it in Python using a pipe.


Dave - The Developers' Coach