I am looking for a solution to run a process with input files in python:
in my script I call a process using sub-process:
import subprocess as sp
sp.call(['C:\EnergyPlusV8-8-0\EP-Launch.exe'])
So the program I would like to launch is open, but then I need to choose 2 input files and then press the button "Simulate.." to execute the program(Energy Plus).
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I mean, after those code lines, the interface of the program(Energy Plus) is open, then I choose in that window which input files the program has to use. After that in the same interface of the program I start the simulation. I want to do these steps just in the python code, without interacte with the EnergyPlus interface. I hope I clearify the ambiguities
I would like to do the last steps automatically(knowing the input files location) in the python code.
How can I do this?
You won't be able to do this unless EnergyPlus is providing some kind of API, or you are prepared to write UI manipulation code, which would really depend on the type of application it is. Without more information I'm going to have to say what you want to do is not possible.
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So, I'm currently trying to construct a c++ aplication that calls for a python script. The main idea is that the python script runs a loop and prints decisions based on user input. I want the cpp program to be able to wait and read(if there s an output from python). I tried to make them "talk" via a file but it turned out bad. Any ideas?
PS: im calling the script using system("start powershell.exe C:\\python.exe C:\\help.py");
If there is any better way please let me know! Thanks
You could write to a file from python and check every certain amount of time in the c++ program to check for any changes in the file.
No, there is no standard way to capture the output if you start the program using std::system.
The operating system facility that you're looking for is "stream". The standard C++ provides access only to the standard streams, which you can use if you redirect the output of the python program when you start the C++ program. Example shell command:
python help.py > cpp_program
If you do this, then you can continuously read the output from the standard input stream in the C++ program. There is no standard way to create extra streams in C++, although that possibility is typically provided by the operating system.
Searching isn't pulling up anything useful so perhaps my verbiage is wrong.
I have a python application that I didn't write that takes user input and performs tasks based on the input. The other script I did write watches the serial traffic for a specific match condition. Both scripts run in different windows. What I want to do is if I get a match condition from my script output a command to the other script. Is there a way to do this with python? I am working in windows and want to send the output to a different window.
Since you can start the script within your script, you can just follow the instructions in this link: Read from the terminal in Python
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I assume you can modify the code in the application you didn't write. If so, you can tell the code to "print" what it's putting on the window to a file, and your other code could constantly monitor that file.
Question about general possibilities using Python here, I don't really know enough about programming to know whether it's something that's doable, and if so, how do I go about it.
I have a program which is a simple desktop program, which you load files into. The program can then output various properties of the thing that's in the file, and depending on what you ask it to do will output a report. It outputs the report in text format, but not as a file, and instead actually, just in the program itself displays the report. Like this:
My question is that if I want to get this text output for a large number of files, I'm currently manually loading the files individually into the program making the report, copying this to a text file, and saving the text file.
Basically I want to know whether it's extremely difficult to get Python to do this for me, or not. If it is doable, are the resources available for me to read about how it might be done? Are there conditions about being able to run my program and various commands from the Python command box?
Hope my question's clear enough. Sorry if it's a bit garbled.
The tricky part here is
The program can then output various properties of the thing that's in the file, and depending on what you ask it to do will output a report.
Basically, if the desktop application you use has a command line interface, it is possible and relatively easy.
If this program has command line option to open a document and output a report in any format (print the report on the standard output, write it into a file on the disk, etc.), you can call that commands from a script python for each files you set in a list.
If your software doesn't have a CLI (Command Line Interface), it might be possible but more diffficult. In that case, you have to automate actions by using a library that will emulate clicks on the Window of you software (1. Click on Open 2. Click, click, click to select the file to load 3. Click on the button to generate a report etc.) It's a pain, but it can be considered.
You will find plenty of resources to learn by yourself how to code a python script. You will probably need to learn about lists, loops, files manipulations and maybe the subprocess library which will let you call any command from your python script.
I suggest you to start with Python3 instead of Python2 because it has a better support for unicode that could quickly become an issue if you have non ascii characters in your input files or in reports from your software.
Good luck ;)
If the only way you can get report is selecting and copy/pasting it from program GUI, the situation just begs for AutoIt instead of Python.
With Python it would be much more difficult. Unless you want to improve your python knowledge or course...
Simulating keypresses, you can open specific file in program (through sending ctrl+o or alt and navigating file menu). Simulating mouse or keypress - start report generation. Then simulate a mouse click in text area, and perform something like:
(just a skeleton of script, probably need to be modified to suit your situation and needs)
send("^{a}^{c}") ; to select all and copy (if these keys are supported in this program
$text = ClipGet() ; get contents of clipboard
$fout = FileOpen("somefile.txt",2)
FileWrite($fout,$text)
FileClose($fout)
To fully automate the task, in script you can get a list of source files in specific folder, and run this macro for each of them, automatically naming resulting txt files.
I've got a python program that reads input from a midi device and produces text output derived from the incoming MIDI messages. As a simple example, let's say that it's simply mapping MIDI Note On events to note names e.g. note_on(60) --> 'C'. I'd like to capture the output in real time to a GVIM (actually MacVim) window without losing the ability to edit the output with a computer keyboard, i.e. I need for MacVim to read from both an external program and from the computer keyboard.
What's the cleanest general way to implement that under the assumption that the MIDI reader will never generate output while I'm trying to type and vice-versa? I'd prefer to be able to give the python script a filename and have it start MacVim with that file open, but doing it with shell commands or connecting from within MacVim would also be acceptable.
Based on the answers to How do I read and write repeatedly from a process in vim?, it looks like vim does not easily support 2 input sources asynchronously. I'll leave the question open in case someone happens to know an elegant solution, but for now it seems like the best approach is have my python program write to a normal file, use 'tail -f' for real-time viewing, and edit afterwards.
The situation is like this:
I want to capture the pop-ups of IPmsg.exe in my python program.
There is an easy way of doing it, which is reading from the log file. But I would like to know if this can be done without bringing log files into discussion.
For more on IPmsg.exe: http://ipmsg.org/index.html.en
That was being specific.
Now, what would be a generic approach to capturing the output of a windows based GUI program?
There are generally two ways to talk to GUI programs on Windows, if you hate the log files:
Use their command line interface! I doubt this has one that outputs to stdout as messages come in
Use the win32 api or a wrapper for it to search for specific windows (polling as necessary or installing hooks to find out when they appear) and then grabbing text from them using more api calls. See this question: Get text from popup window
+1 for using the log files by the way, far easier.
You can capture only the output from applications through Python that you start directly from Python e.g. using the subprocess module:
http://docs.python.org/library/subprocess.html
Otherwise you have basically no chance for reading the direct output of other applications.