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I have a Java program, reading a file (which has characters from a native language), and populating a string. It works fine, when program is run directly.

But when same program is invoked from Python then its not able to populate the string.

        public static void main(String[] args) {
        File inputFile = new File("input.txt");
        BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(new FileInputStream(inputFile),"UTF-8"));
      string output = "";
        while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) {
           // This block never hits when invoked by python. It works fine when java program runs directly.
           output +=line+" ";
         }
         ...
         }

From Python I am invoking it as following

cmd = ['java', java_class]
subprocess.Popen(cmd, shell=True, stdin=subprocess.PIPE, stdout=subprocess.PIPE)

Any inputs? btw I am using Atom IDE, not sure if that makes any difference.

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  • What is the error that you are getting? Commented Mar 9, 2019 at 13:54
  • no error. Its just that my output comes empty instead of having contents of file Commented Mar 9, 2019 at 14:13
  • Check this post stackoverflow.com/questions/2388423/… Commented Mar 9, 2019 at 14:14
  • @TheRoy, thanks for sharing the link. But not sure if this link helps, it just tells that how to read the java program's output in python. I am able to invoke the java application from python. Issue is that when java application is invoked from python then its not able to read the content of a file, which is perfectly readable when java application is run directly. Commented Mar 9, 2019 at 14:18

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I tried your example and it worked for me. Let's see if it works for you. I will then respond to you what I think about the issue.

import java.io.*;


public class Python2JavaMessaging {
        public static void main(String[] args) {
                try {
                        BufferedReader bufferRead = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
                        PrintWriter writer = new PrintWriter("result.txt", "UTF-8");
                        String s = bufferRead.readLine();
                        while(s.equals("x")==false) {
                                writer.println(s);
                                s = bufferRead.readLine();
                        }
                        writer.close();
                } catch(IOException e) {
                        e.printStackTrace();
                }
        }
}

The Python script is as below:

#!/usr/bin/python

import subprocess

cmd = ['java', '-classpath', '.' , 'Python2JavaMessaging']
p = subprocess.Popen(cmd, stdin=subprocess.PIPE, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, encoding='utf8')

p.stdin.write("First line\r\n")
p.stdin.write("Second line\r\n")
p.stdin.write("x\r\n") # this line will not be printed into the file
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btw, I have used stdin to write. We can change it to a file as well. In your case, input.txt
Can you please help me by providing the sample with a file. Also, just to highlight again if my file content is english then everything works fine. It does not work only when i have file content in some native language.
you will need to use the right encoding for that. I have used encoding in my example. Try your native language specific encoding.
Check this post for writing to a file. stackoverflow.com/questions/15535240/…
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