IT 117: Intermediate Scripting - Class 7 Exercise

IT 117: Intermediate to Scripting
Class 7 Exercise

Script for this exercise

Open a text editor
You can use the editor built into IDLE or use a program like Sublime.
Copy the text below into the file

Save the file as ex7.py
Copy the file student_scores.txt from /home/ghoffman/course_files/it117_files
Use FileZilla to do this.
Run this script in IDLE
Open the script file in IDLE. Under the Run menu, select Run Module.

You should see

Cannot open xxx
Jones, Mary 94
Smith, John 92
Tyler, Tim 83

Unix setup

Log in to users3.cs.umb.edu
You will be in your home directory.
Go to your it117 directory
```
cd it117
```
Go to your ex directory
```
cd ex
```
Create a directory for this exercise
```
mkdir  ex7
```
Check that the directory was created
```
ls
```

Copy the file to Unix

Open FileZilla and connect to users3.cs.umb.edu
You will have to connect using your Unix username and password.
Copy the file to the to it117/ex/ex7

Testing the script on Unix

Connect to users3.cs.umb.edu
Use an ssh client.
Go to the directory for this exercise
```
cd  it117/ex/ex7
```
Make this script executable
```
chmod  755 ex7.py
```
Copy the file /student_scores.txt from /home/ghoffman/course_files/it117_files
```
cp  /home/ghoffman/course_files/it117_files//student_scores.txt  .
```
Run this script
```
./ex7.py
```

You should see

Cannot open xxx
Jones, Mary 94
Smith, John 92
Tyler, Tim 83

Running my test script on your script

If you want to run my text script on your Class Exercise script do the following
Run ex07.sh on your script
```
~ghoffman/it117_test/ex07.sh
```
The script will prompt you for your Unix username.