Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!feeder.news-service.com!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed6.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.000 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 1.00; '*S*': 0.00; 'python?': 0.05; 'sys': 0.05; 'formatting': 0.07; 'python': 0.08; '21,': 0.09; '>>>>': 0.09; 'from:addr:ethan': 0.09; 'from:addr:stoneleaf.us': 0.09; 'from:name:ethan furman': 0.09; 'message-id:@stoneleaf.us': 0.09; 'received:gator410.hostgator.com': 0.09; 'run.': 0.09; 'skip:\\ 20': 0.09; 'window?': 0.09; '~ethan~': 0.09; 'pm,': 0.10; 'this:': 0.10; 'syntax': 0.11; '>>>': 0.12; 'win32': 0.12; 'wrote:': 0.14; '"copyright",': 0.16; '"credits"': 0.16; '"license"': 0.16; 'adam': 0.16; 'brackets,': 0.16; 'brackets.': 0.16; "computer's": 0.16; 'furman': 0.16; 'received:72.11': 0.16; 'received:72.11.125': 0.16; 'received:72.11.125.166': 0.16; 'looked': 0.16; 'dec': 0.17; 'cc:addr:python-list': 0.17; 'repeated': 0.19; 'command': 0.19; 'help.': 0.20; 'header:In- Reply-To:1': 0.21; 'interface': 0.21; 'variable': 0.21; 'downloaded': 0.21; 'wrote': 0.22; 'cc:2**0': 0.22; 'assume': 0.23; 'cc:no real name:2**0': 0.23; 'away.': 0.23; 'worked': 0.24; 'code': 0.24; 'invalid': 0.25; 'parameters': 0.26; 'skip:[ 10': 0.26; 'windows': 0.26; 'fixed': 0.27; 'script': 0.27; 'tried': 0.27; '(the': 0.28; 'thanks': 0.28; 'grateful': 0.29; 'import': 0.29; 'version': 0.29; 'bit': 0.30; 'cc:addr:python.org': 0.30; 'second': 0.30; 'environment': 0.30; 'looks': 0.31; 'calling': 0.31; "didn't": 0.31; 'print': 0.31; '2008,': 0.32; 'does': 0.33; 'actually': 0.33; 'skip:" 20': 0.33; 'error': 0.33; "i've": 0.33; '...': 0.34; "i'll": 0.34; 'regular': 0.34; 'file': 0.34; 'header :User-Agent:1': 0.35; 'skip:" 10': 0.35; 'here,': 0.35; 'folder': 0.36; 'skip:o 20': 0.37; 'something': 0.37; 'another': 0.37; 'response': 0.37; 'skip:- 10': 0.37; 'could': 0.38; 'screen': 0.38; 'but': 0.38; 'data': 0.38; 'earlier': 0.38; 'subject:: ': 0.38; 'some': 0.38; 'user': 0.39; 'should': 0.39; 'called': 0.39; "i'd": 0.39; 'printed': 0.39; 'getting': 0.40; 'generate': 0.60; 'more': 0.60; 'your': 0.60; 'back': 0.63; 'full': 0.63; 'straight': 0.63; 'here': 0.66; 'received:websitewelcome.com': 0.67; 'received:69.93': 0.67; 'have.': 0.77; 'chapman': 0.84; 'vive': 0.84; 'url:video': 0.95 Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 09:51:03 -0700 From: Ethan Furman User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (Windows/20070221) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Adam Chapman Subject: Re: running an existing script References: , <4E00E3DB.9040900@stoneleaf.us> <44f694fd-c075-41a3-a044-c1b05f2a1463@x38g2000pri.googlegroups.com> <2d53da9c-0a28-4f88-b786-f18a3d0f4f11@f2g2000yqh.googlegroups.com> <58532636-8ddf-44ff-bcc7-1449b6dbdf80@e17g2000prj.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: <58532636-8ddf-44ff-bcc7-1449b6dbdf80@e17g2000prj.googlegroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - gator410.hostgator.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - python.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - stoneleaf.us X-BWhitelist: no X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: X-Source-Sender: mail.admailinc.com ([192.168.10.136]) [72.11.125.166]:1458 X-Source-Auth: ethan+stoneleaf.us X-Email-Count: 3 X-Source-Cap: dG9idWs7dG9idWs7Z2F0b3I0MTAuaG9zdGdhdG9yLmNvbQ== Cc: python-list@python.org X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 85 NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.94.164.166 X-Trace: 1308760635 news.xs4all.nl 49181 [::ffff:82.94.164.166]:39102 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.python:8226 Adam Chapman wrote: > On Jun 22, 4:54 pm, Adam Chapman > wrote: >> On Jun 21, 9:12 pm, Adam Chapman >> wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>> On Jun 21, 8:00 pm, Ethan Furman 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~