use bash to sequentially call 6 python routines

Every week I have to insert scores for 7 classes, so I am trying to automate this as much as possible.

I now have 6 python routines which all work in my idle3 shell and in a bash terminal in Ubuntu 18.04 and do everything I need.

The routines are:

copyOldData.py
insert3Cols.py
getScoresInsertScores.py
calculatePercentScores.py
paintColumnsYellow.py
insertPhotos.py

They are all in /home/pedro/insertScores/python/

How can I get bash to call each one in this order?

Here's one way to do it.

find . -name "*.py" -exec \{} \;

EDIT: Why don't you put the functionality of each file into their own functions in a single file?

pyscripts = "copyOldData.py insert3Cols.py getScoresInsertScores.py \
calculatePercentScores.py paintColumnsYellow.py insertPhotos.py"
for a in $pyscripts
do
    python $a
done

the \ is for new line breaks in string for readability, you do not have to use it. Instead you can put them all on the same line if you want to.

Originally Posted by BW-userx pyscripts = "copyOldData.py insert3Cols.py getScoresInsertScores.py \ calculatePercentScores.py paintColumnsYellow.py insertPhotos.py"

Can't have a space between '=' when assigning a variable. Other than that, this way works as well.

If you can get what you want by executing each in sequence, then just write a script that runs each in sequence...

#!/bin/bash
cd /home/pedro/insertScores/python/
copyOldData.py
insert3Cols.py
getScoresInsertScores.py
calculatePercentScores.py
paintColumnsYellow.py
insertPhotos.py

Assumptions:
all of the python scripts have a correct #!
all are executable

Thank you all! As a non-geek, I struggle with this!

Why don't you put the functionality of each file into their own functions in a single file?

@ individual

I tried, but none of the individual routines need a parameter.

I thought I could define each routine as a function:

def copyOldData()
mycode ...
def insert3Cols()
mycode ...
def getScoresInsertScores()
mycode ...
def calculatePercentScores()
mycode ...
def paintColumnsYellow()
mycode ...
def insertPhotos()
mycode ...

Then define main()
def main()
copyOldData()
insert3Cols()
getScoresInsertScores()
calculatePercentScores()
paintColumnsYellow()
insertPhotos()

Then just write:

go = main()

But this does not work, it stops at

 pedro@pedro-newssd:~/insertScores/python$ ./allStepsIn1.py
    File "./allStepsIn1.py", line 6
    def copyOldData
    ^
    SyntaxError: invalid syntax
    pedro@pedro-newssd:~/insertScores/python$

EDIT: I got it working after a tip: I forgot to put a : after the function brackets, like some_function():

Works like a dream now!

I do not know Python, but could it not also be done like this, if one can call another python script within it, then call the next one when the prior one is finished doing whatever it is doing within the prior script. as redundant as that maybe, it might too me just one other way for doing this, so they are chained together calling for the next script to be ran as when it is finished.

though programming is programming, I have not seen nor know what it is doing per se' but putting everything into one script too should be possible. it just makes for a longer script on one sheet of Epaper.

Considering this is the working method.

def copyOldData(): mycode ... def insert3Cols(): mycode ... def getScoresInsertScores(): mycode ... def calculatePercentScores(): mycode ... def paintColumnsYellow(): mycode ... def insertPhotos(): mycode ... Then define main() def main(): copyOldData() insert3Cols() getScoresInsertScores() calculatePercentScores() paintColumnsYellow() insertPhotos()

Alternatively to copy and pasting all your code, if you went through each original file and wrapped it in a function (like you did after you copied the code to the new file)

Eg for insertPhotos.py

def insertPhotos():
... insertPhotos.py original code ...

Then in a new file (__main__.py) you could do something like

from copyOldData import copyOldData                                             
from insert3Cols import insert3Cols                                             
from getScoresInsertScores import getScoresInsertScores                         
from calculatePercentScores import calculatePercentScores                       
from paintColumnsYellow import paintColumnsYellow                               
from insertPhotos import insertPhotos

def main():
    copyOldData()                                                               
    insert3Cols()                                                               
    getScoresInsertScores()                                                     
    calculatePercentScores()                                                    
    paintColumnsYellow()                                                        
    insertPhotos()

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I suspect this could be more integrated then 6 wholly separate functions without arguments.
If OP posts the source code, I may be able to provide some examples