I'm trying to run a Python script inside a perl script with the following command:
system("python3 script.py -d http:\/\/site.com --no-interaction");
qx/python3 script.py -d http:\/\/site.com --no-interaction/;
On the operating system's command line, the Python script executes, but when I make a call from a PHP application, the perl work, but the python script don't work.
Do you get any error message from Perl side?
Likely where your PHP/Perl script runs from isn't the same location as where script.py is at. Try by using full path to Python script. Also double check that python3 is in your $PATH.
For example:
-> cat /home/me/python/script.py
print("This line will be printed.")
-> cat /home/me/perl/pytest.pl
#!/bin/env perl
print "From perl:\n";
system ("python3 /home/me/python/script.py");
cd /home/me/perl/
ksh
whence python3
"/usr/bin"
pytest.pl
"From perl:
This line will be printed."
I am trying to pipe output from a command written in the terminal to a Python script.
For example:
ls | ./foo.py
I wrote a Python script to do the same:
#foo.py
import fileinput
with fileinput.input() as f_input :
for line in f_input :
print(line,end='')
But this does not seem to work,
when I run the following command:
$ ls | sudo ./foo.py
I get an error that says:
$ ./foo.py: command not found
I have checked the working directory and I can see the foo.py when I use the ls command, so what am I doing wrong here?
It seems like you forgot the Shebang:
#!/usr/bin/env python3
import fileinput
with fileinput.input() as f_input :
for line in f_input :
print(line,end='')
Also remember make it as executable via command:
chmod +x foo.py
Then run your command again.
You have to pipe it to the Python executable, not to the name of a file. As the error says, that filename doesn't represent a command it knows.
ls | py ./foo.py
Use py or python or however you run the Python interpreter on your particular system.
I want to pass the name of a file to a python script while I'm running it from the command line. I'm trying this clear command:
cat enwiki-latest-pages-articles.xml | python WikiExtractor.py -b 500K -o extracted
however, it gives an error:
'cat' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
Thanks in advance.
It seems like you're running the command in Windows. In windows, there's no cat installed unless you installed.
You can use type command instead:
type enwiki-latest-pages-articles.xml | python WikiExtractor.py -b 500K -o extracted
The correct way would be python WikiExtractor.py -b5 -o extracted -f enwiki-latest-pages-articles.xml.
And use sys.argv array of input arguments of python command from sys command.
This may help:
http://www.tutorialspoint.com/python/python_command_line_arguments.htm
I have a Python script script.py that has been defined as executable and which begins with the following sha-bang:
#!/usr/bin/env python -W all
But when I call it from the shell, this is what I get:
$ ./script.py
/usr/bin/env: python -W all: No such file or directory
Calling it directly works though:
$ env python -W all script.py
... some good stuff happens here
What am I doing wrong here?
On a shebang line, you only get one argument. So python -W all is being passed to env as one argument. On the command line, the shell correctly parses the arguments before invoking env.
I've tried googling the answer but with no luck.
I need to use my works supercomputer server, but for my python script to run, it must be executed via a shell script.
For example I want job.sh to execute python_script.py
How can this be accomplished?
Just make sure the python executable is in your PATH environment variable then add in your script
python path/to/the/python_script.py
Details:
In the file job.sh, put this
#!/bin/sh
python python_script.py
Execute this command to make the script runnable for you : chmod u+x job.sh
Run it : ./job.sh
Method 1 - Create a shell script:
Suppose you have a python file hello.py
Create a file called job.sh that contains
#!/bin/bash
python hello.py
mark it executable using
$ chmod +x job.sh
then run it
$ ./job.sh
Method 2 (BETTER) - Make the python itself run from shell:
Modify your script hello.py and add this as the first line
#!/usr/bin/env python
mark it executable using
$ chmod +x hello.py
then run it
$ ./hello.py
Save the following program as print.py:
#!/usr/bin/python3
print('Hello World')
Then in the terminal type:
chmod +x print.py
./print.py
You should be able to invoke it as python scriptname.py e.g.
# !/bin/bash
python /home/user/scriptname.py
Also make sure the script has permissions to run.
You can make it executable by using chmod u+x scriptname.py.
Imho, writing
python /path/to/script.py
Is quite wrong, especially in these days. Which python? python2.6? 2.7? 3.0? 3.1? Most of times you need to specify the python version in shebang tag of python file. I encourage to use #!/usr/bin/env python2 #or python2.6 or python3 or even python3.1 for compatibility.
In such case, is much better to have the script executable and invoke it directly:
#!/bin/bash
/path/to/script.py
This way the version of python you need is only written in one file. Most of system these days are having python2 and python3 in the meantime, and it happens that the symlink python points to python3, while most people expect it pointing to python2.
This works for me:
Create a new shell file job. So let's say:
touch job.sh and add command to run python script (you can even add command line arguments to that python, I usually predefine my command line arguments).
chmod +x job.sh
Inside job.sh add the following py files, let's say:
python_file.py argument1 argument2 argument3 >> testpy-output.txt && echo "Done with python_file.py"
python_file1.py argument1 argument2 argument3 >> testpy-output.txt && echo "Done with python_file1.py"
Output of job.sh should look like this:
Done with python_file.py
Done with python_file1.py
I use this usually when I have to run multiple python files with different arguments, pre defined.
Note: Just a quick heads up on what's going on here:
python_file.py argument1 argument2 argument3 >> testpy-output.txt && echo "completed with python_file.py" .
Here shell script will run the file python_file.py and add multiple command-line arguments at run time to the python file.
This does not necessarily means, you have to pass command line arguments as well.
You can just use it like: python python_file.py, plain and simple.
Next up, the >> will print and store the output of this .py file in the testpy-output.txt file.
&& is a logical operator that will run only after the above is executed successfully and as an optional echo "completed with python_file.py" will be echoed on to your cli/terminal at run time.
This works best for me:
Add this at the top of the script:
#!c:/Python27/python.exe
(C:\Python27\python.exe is the path to the python.exe on my machine)
Then run the script via:
chmod +x script-name.py && script-name.py
I use this and it works fine
#/bin/bash
/usr/bin/python python python_script.py
Since the other posts say everything (and I stumbled upon this post while looking for the following).
Here is a way how to execute a python script from another python script:
Python 2:
execfile("somefile.py", global_vars, local_vars)
Python 3:
with open("somefile.py") as f:
code = compile(f.read(), "somefile.py", 'exec')
exec(code, global_vars, local_vars)
and you can supply args by providing some other sys.argv
Here I have demonstrated an example to run python script within a shell script. For different purposes you may need to read the output from a shell command, execute both python script and shell command within the same file.
To execute a shell command from python use os.system() method. To read output from a shell command use os.popen().
Following is an example which will grep all processes having the text sample_program.py inside of it. Then after collecting the process IDs (using python) it will kill them all.
#!/usr/bin/python3
import os
# listing all matched processes and taking the output into a variable s
s = os.popen("ps aux | grep 'sample_program.py'").read()
s = '\n'.join([l for l in s.split('\n') if "grep" not in l]) # avoiding killing the grep itself
print("To be killed:")
print(s)
# now manipulating this string s and finding the process IDs and killing them
os.system("kill -9 " + ' '.join([x.split()[1] for x in s.split('\n') if x]))
References:
Execute a python program from within a shell script
Assign output of os.system to a variable and prevent it from being displayed on the screen
If you have a bash script and you need to run inside of it a python3 script (with external modules), I recommend that you point in your bash script to your python path like this.
#!/usr/bin/env bash
-- bash code --
/usr/bin/python3 your_python.py
-- bash code --