Running python script on C# and getting output continuously

Question

I'm trying to run a python script from C# and I want to get the output line by line and not at the end. I feel like I'm missing something important, but don't know what. This is what I have so far:

static void Main(string[] args)
{
    var cmd = "C:/Users/user/Documents/script.py";
    var process = new Process
    {
        StartInfo = new ProcessStartInfo
        {
            FileName = "C:/Users/user/AppData/Local/Programs/Python/Python36/python.exe",
            Arguments = cmd,
            UseShellExecute = false,
            RedirectStandardOutput = true,
            RedirectStandardError = true,
            CreateNoWindow = true
        },
        EnableRaisingEvents = true
    };
    process.ErrorDataReceived += Process_OutputDataReceived;
    process.OutputDataReceived += Process_OutputDataReceived;

    process.Start();
    process.BeginErrorReadLine();
    process.BeginOutputReadLine();
    process.WaitForExit();
    Console.Read();
}

static void Process_OutputDataReceived(object sender, DataReceivedEventArgs e)
{
    Console.WriteLine(e.Data);
}

And the python code:

import time

for i in range(5):
    print("Hello World " + str(i))
    time.sleep(1)

Are we to assume that you are getting output, but you're getting it all at once? This is not stated in the question. — user47589
– user47589, Commented Nov 19, 2018 at 18:34
By default print does not flush the output. There are several ways of doing that, depending on your python version. See: stackoverflow.com/questions/230751/… — user47589
– user47589, Commented Nov 19, 2018 at 18:37

Ehsan.Saradar · Accepted Answer · 2018-11-19 19:03:45Z

15

change your python code to the following:

import time
import sys
for i in range(5):
    print("Hello World " + str(i))
    sys.stdout.flush()
    time.sleep(1)

or just edit your c# code and use -u switch:

var cmd = "-u C:/Users/user/Documents/script.py";

When standard output it was being redirected, the event in C# wasn't being raised when a line was written on console because there were no calls to stdout.flush;

Putting a stdout.flush() statement after each print statement made the events fire as they should and C# now captures the output as it comes.

Or you could just use -u switch.

edited Nov 19, 2018 at 19:03

answered Nov 19, 2018 at 18:38

Ehsan.Saradar

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3 Comments

Terry Anderson Over a year ago

This works perfectly. Apparently I didn't know about the flushing mechanism.

user47589 Over a year ago

Note that if you don't want to modify the python code, there are alternative ways of accomplishing this. See my link under your question. the command-line argument -u will use unbuffered streams.

Vincent Over a year ago

-u works perfect

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