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Linkandzelda
Linkandzelda

Reputation: 611

Giving input to a Python file and recieving output?

I'm pretty new to Python and I'm trying to do something. I'm using a Python IRC bot which let's me build functions that are used as commands on the channel. I have obtained a python version of Cleverbot and would like to link these 2 together. But becuase I'm not good with Python I'm not sure how to do it.

To use the cleverbot python I would simply type in a terminal:

python cleverbot.py

And it would give me a "> " where I can input. Then I say on that line "Hello" and the cleverbot script will print the result using a print command.

So, I've been messing around and have discovered I can use the Python IRC bot commands to print a string, so it will simply print the results string for me. The problem is I can't get it to input anything to the cleverbot script. I was hoping it was possible to do something like:

print python cleverbot.py "hello"

And it would simply print the response from Cleverbot, does that make sense? I could then simply use the IRC commands to print the response to the channel.

Thanks in advance, and I hope it was possible to understand.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 298

Answers (2)

pingw33n
pingw33n

Reputation: 12510

Try

echo "hello" | python cleverbot.py

Upvotes: 0

Ashwini Chaudhary
Ashwini Chaudhary

Reputation: 250941

inside cleverbot.py you can you these statements to print the command line argument provided:

   import sys
   print(sys.argv[1])  #or print(' '.join(sys.argv[1:])) if the arguments are more than one

so now python cleverbot.py hello will print hello

Upvotes: 1

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