Enter to raw_input automatically

Question

Just as an example, it might seem illogical. I have a get_name function as below, and wanted to write a automated script to call this function and enter to the raw_inp

Answer 1

You can redirect your stdin to a file , and then raw_input() would read from that file.

Example -

def run():
    import sys
    f1 = sys.stdin
    f = open('input.txt','r')
    sys.stdin = f
    get_name()
    f.close()
    sys.stdin = f1

Please note, after you do - f = open('input.txt','r') and sys.stdin = f , raw_input() would read from the file.

Once you are done with the get_name() call, close the file and restore the stdin using sys.stdin = sys.__stdin__ , if you want to restore it back to console input, otherise you can restore it to f1 , which would restore it to the state it was before test started.

Please note, you should be careful when redirecting inputs like this.