How to link interactive problems (w.r.t. CodeJam)?

Question

I'm not sure if it's allowed to seek for help(if not, I don't mind not getting an answer until the competition period is over).

I was solving the Interactive Problem (Dat Bae) on CodeJam. On my local files, I can run the judge (testing_tool.py) and my program (<name>.py) separately and copy paste the I/O manually. However, I assume I need to find a way to make it automatically.

Edit: To make it clear, I want every output of x file to be input in y file and vice versa.

Some details:

1. I've used sys.stdout.write / sys.stdin.readline instead of print / input throughout my program

2. I tried running interactive_runner.py, but I don't seem to figure out how to use it.

3. I tried running it on their server, my program in first tab, the judge file in second. It's always throwing TLE error.

I don't seem to find any tutorial to do the same either, any help will be appreciated! :/

Answer 1

The usage is documented in comments inside the scripts:

interactive_runner.py

# Run this as:
# python interactive_runner.py <cmd_line_judge> -- <cmd_line_solution>
#
# For example:
# python interactive_runner.py python judge.py 0 -- ./my_binary
#
# This will run the first test set of a python judge called "judge.py" that
# receives the test set number (starting from 0) via command line parameter
# with a solution compiled into a binary called "my_binary".

testing_tool.py

# Usage: `testing_tool.py test_number`, where the argument test_number
# is 0 for Test Set 1 or 1 for Test Set 2.

So use them like this:

python interactive_runner.py python testing_tool.py 0 -- ./dat_bae.py