Launch a sub-process with a regula python interpreter

[salvatoredragotta]

Hi All,

I came across the post below. Can anybody provide examples how this can be done and possible applications?

Importing .pyd module

You can’t import C python modules directly into iron python but you can launch a sub-process with a regular python interpreter (or any other program for that matter), pipe data over to the sub-process, perform the desired functionality and finally bring the result back over to Dynamo. A common way to send data back and forward is with an intermediate file.

[Tomasz]

Install Python library without pip

It’s just a proof of concept. This is Dynamo graph [Workspace] This is Python code in Dynamo: import clr import sys sys.path.append(r'C:\Program Files (x86)\IronPython 2.7\Lib') import os arg = IN[0] os.system('python z:\external_script.py ' + arg) You can also use subprocess for more control. And this is external_script.py: import sys print(sys.version) print('Number of arguments:', len(sys.argv), 'arguments.') print('Argument List:', str(sys.argv)) input('Press Enter to continue...') T…