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How do to use a python script in Unity?

I'm trying to run a face detection model in Unity. It gets input from the webcam, then spits out a face. But trying to make this work with C# has been an absolute nightmare. And despite all my suffering, I still haven't been able to make it work!
If I could use python, I'd be able to get it done easily. So, obviously, I want to find a way to get a python script working in Unity. But IronPython is the only thing I've been able to find, and it's outdated.
I need either knowledge of how to make IronPython work in spite of being outdated, or some other method. Please.

Unfortunately, Unity at this time does not support Python. Although, there is an asset that you can use a bit of Python with. I am not sure what you can do with this asset but I know it could help a minimal amount:https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/integration/python-interpreter-645
Quick Note: Most programming languages work about the same way. If you figure out the documentation and grammar/punctuation for C#/UnityC#, you should be off just fine.

I try to use python once on Unity and I found a few ways:
There is a package call "IronPython" where you can add a python file to your unity project and then call a function from C# to your python code, to do that you should follow this:
We already know that we can use python to use .net internal calls.
Now we may use the same to start a console that can accept a scripting language in Unity engine.
To do this we have to include certain dll files.
These dll files must be present in Assets>plugins
IronPython.dll
IronPython.Modules.dll
Microsoft.Scripting.Core.dll
Microsoft.Scripting.dll
Microsoft.Scripting.Debugging.dll
Microsoft.Scripting.ExtensionAttribute.dll
Microsoft.Dynamic.dll
Once the Plugins are in place.
Initiate the Cs code
PythonEngine engine = new PythonEngine();
engine.LoadAssembly(Assembly.GetAssembly(typeof(GameObject)));
engine.ExecuteFile("Test.py");
Where test.py is the python code.
Initiate python side:
import UnityEngine from UnityEngine
import *
Debug.Log("Hello world from IronPython!")
References:
https://github.com/cesardeazevedo/Unity3D-Python-Editor
http://techartsurvival.blogspot.in/2013/12/embedding-ironpython-in-unity-tech-art.html
IronPython in Unity3D
the issue with this way is that most of the python module are not supported.
2.the second way is to create a file like json that contain the data you want to send to the json and then create an output json that send the output from the python script, this way is very limited with what you can send because the data must be contain in your json.
the last way that work for me is to install the Nuget package and copy the script from python to c# line by line with the relevent module installed in Unity and it's work for me, but copy a long code can take time.
this is a reference to the package:
https://github.com/GlitchEnzo/NuGetForUnity
and then to install the relevent package you should press on NuGet → Manage NuGet Packages and the choose the relevent package(for me it was Numpy and it work grate).
hope it will help you

I don't know how recent it is but there is a Unity package for python available on unity 2019.3 and further versions.
Warning the first versions of this package can't use Python3.
You can see more for yourself by the following link.
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.scripting.python#2.0/manual/index.html
I hope this may help you.

We are thrilled to announce that Python for Unity 4.0.0-exp.5 is now available!
4.0.0-exp.5 is a major upgrade from our last public release, and incorporates a large number of changes. In summary:
Based on Python 3.7; scripts based on Python 2.7 will need to be ported.
Users no longer need to install Python on their system.
In-process Python is no longer reinitialized when the Unity domain reloads.
Removed the out-of-process API. The PySide example now runs in-process and is much simpler.
Limited support for a virtual environment workflow via the ProjectSettings/requirements.txt file.
Many bug fixes.
Documentation for the Python for Unity package is available here, and the full changelog can be found here.
This is an experimental release, and thus is not visible in Package Manager. To install this package, open Package Manager, click the + at the top left and select Add package by name.... Enter com.unity.scripting.python as the name and and 4.0.0-exp.5 as the version and click Add. Alternatively, you may edit Packages/manifest.json and add "com.unity.scripting.python": "4.0.0-exp.5", to the list of dependencies, or edit the existing entry for Python for Unity to update the version.
Soursce: https://forum.unity.com/threads/python-for-unity-release-announcements.1084688/
Documentation: https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.scripting.python#4.0/manual/index.html

Unity not supported python, But you Can write Python Code and run it by Socket programing, Create Server with python and send data,in C# Connect to server and use data sended with python.

How to package a Python project into MSIX package?

I currently work on a Python project, which I'd like to upload to the Microsoft Store in the future.
As far as I am aware, in order to upload applications to the Microsoft Store, it is necessary that the application will be packed into the MSIX format.
Now the question is - is it possible to pack a Python project into the MSIX format?
I already tried two possible approaches
The first approach
I assumed that it will be much easier to pack an .exe file into an MSIX package. Since .py files require an interpreter in order to run, I managed to freeze the Python project into a standalone .exe runnable file - and it works pretty good.
I found a useful tool made by Microsoft, which is supposed to pack .exe files under the MSIX format. The tool is MSIX Packaging Tool which is available at the Microsoft Store. I did manage to create an .msix file but I can't run in since Windows says that I have to sign the .exe first.
The second approach
I found out that it is possible to pack a project into an MSIX package, by using built-in tools inside Visual Studio 2019. So I managed to move my whole python project into Visual Studio, and follow the next steps in order to pack my project.
The problem is that already in the early stages, when adding the reference to my python project, the next error occurs:
I'd love to know if you have any other possible approaches for packing a Python project into an MSIX package.

Building python 3.6.6 from source on Win10

I've downloaded the python 3.6.6 source from here...
https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-366/
...and followed the instruction on how to build on Windows (run ../PCbuild/build.bat). Python compiles and seems to be working (funny and scary: while fetching externals, it actually downloads python-3.7.0 as a dependency... :/ ). However, it looks like the build is somehow 'in place', and the binaries end up in some sub-folder of the source (../PCbuild/amd64/python.exe). This means I'm left with source and compiled code mixed up instead of some clean/lean and deployable package.
can I somehow provide '--prefix=/target/build/path' to define a target location to build to, like I would on linux?
is there a way of removing all src files/folders and leave only the required files/folders (../lib, ../include, etc...).
Or in general, is there a way of making the build process more behave like on linux?
Thanks for your help,
Max

The build.bat from PCBuild is intended for developers, that is, for testing purposes. What you want is under \Tools\msi\buildrelease.bat. This creates a subdirectory under \PCBuild\ that places all msi, cab and exe files ready for later installation. According to the readme, there doesn't seem to be an option to pack all those files in a single .exe file, like all installers eventually do, but another option is under \Tools\msi\build.bat which does have an option for packing (namely build.bat --pack). "But", the readme does state that the buildrelease.bat should be used for an official release. The advantage of doing so is that Pyhton would be optimized using PGO to your own hardware. I am also trying to compile from source using this method but I am having an issue with a recurring error (and other ones):
PGO run did not succeed (no python36!*.pgc files) and there is no data to merge [E:\RepoGiT\3.6\PCbuild\pythoncore.vcxproj]
so, if you do go this route, and find this, or other errors, please send the bug report to python's bug tracker webpage. And better yet, if you find errors and their solution, please report back here!

Python .py files with additional non-default imports - to binary on OSX

I am quite new to python and I am looking for quite an easy feature - build binary out of python file.
This binary will be started on OSX, so no need to add python to this binary.
I decided to use Cython, and everything worked great for single py files.
However, I got two main problems with Cython.
If I have multiple .py files, I don’t know how to add them to single binary (I use Cython with --embed option)
I don’t know how to add imports that are not installed by default to the binary
Am I using the correct tool or it is better to use Py2App or PyInstaller for this?

You might have more success with Nuikta, which is a tool that compiles python code into binaries and has an option for creating standalone binaries.

Read/Write LabView TDMS files in python under linux

Does anyone know of a way to read and write the National Instruments binary file type (TDMS) in python under linux? I know that NI has a C DLL available, but I don't know how to access that through python, or if I even can do so under linux.

It looks like TDMS isn't directly supported under Linux (see here).
Your options currently are to use the G-based functions directly in LabVIEW (It's possible that you can wrap them in a .so file), calling LabVIEW from Python, or building your own file parser from the TDMS spec.
Sorry, no really easy options.
Edit: It looks like there may be an open source project to try to do this at http://sourceforge.net/projects/pytdms/. Worth a try, at least.

You have to install the python version 2.7 (thats the only one that is working with the tdms package for labview atleast)
Sudo pip install npTDMS
Link to the tdms package page
and just follow the example on the page.