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[thilliard]

Ok so what I am trying to get is all the P values (jigz.txt file) change for every job and I pull the values from an excel worksheet now I need to pass those into my script. How is this done? trying not to have to hard code them each time  Thanks 

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[Naresh Patre]

Hello frogdude01

You can read the text file and store all the data from the text file for using it in your script. There is a built-in example showing how to read a csv file in the snippets section which you can refer. See below snapshot. This snippet can be accessed in Insert Snippet - Reading from Files - Reading From a CSV File. You can use similar logic to read txt file and use the data from the txt file in your script.

 

[thilliard]

I tried that I don't know how to pull the information so that in my script P1 will equal 7.125 that is in the text file. I'm a total newbie at this stuff  

[Naresh Patre]

Hello frogdude01

You will have to make use of basic python functionalities like split, dictionary and so on. Please refer below sample code:

f = open("E:\support\forum\JIGZ.txt", "r")

my_dict = {}
for x in f:
    temp = x.split("=,")  # split each line by =,
    my_dict[temp[0]] = temp[1]

# Sketch Line UPPER S DIA 'P5')
start = Point2D.Create(MM(-1*float(my_dict['p1'])*25.4), MM(float(my_dict['p5'])*25.4))
end = Point2D.Create(MM((-1*float(my_dict['p2'])*25.4)-R1), MM(float(my_dict['p5'])*25.4))
result = SketchLine.Create(start, end)
# EndBlock

[thilliard]

Thank you will be doing some Python tutorials to be better scripted :)