Can someone give me a tip on how I can use os to run a different .py file from my python script? This code below works, but only because I specify the complete file path.
How can I modify the code to incorporate running plots.py from the same directory as my main script app.py? Im using Windows at the moment but hoping it can work on any operating system. Thanks
import os
os.system('py C:/Users/benb/Desktop/flaskEconServer/plots.py')
You can execute an arbitrary Python script as a separate process using the subprocess.run() function something like this:
import os
import subprocess
import sys
#py_filepath = 'C:/Users/benb/Desktop/flaskEconServer/plots.py'
py_filepath = 'plots_test.py'
args = '"%s" "%s" "%s"' % (sys.executable, # command
py_filepath, # argv[0]
os.path.basename(py_filepath)) # argv[1]
proc = subprocess.run(args)
print('returncode:', proc.returncode)
If you would like to communicate with the process while it's running, that can also be done, plus there are other subprocess functions, including the lower-level but very general subprocess.Popen class that support doing those kind of things.
You can get the directory of the app.py file by using the following call in app.py
dir_path = os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__))
then join the file name you want
file_path = os.path.join(dir_path,'plot.py')
Finally your system call
os.system(f'py {file_path}') # if you're on 3.6 and above.
os.system('py %s' % file_path) # 3.5 and below
As others have said sub-processes and multi-threading may be better, but for your specific question this is what you want.
Python has built-in support for executing other scripts, without the need for the os module.
Try:
from . import plots
If you want to execute it in an independent python process, look into the multiprocessing or subprocess modules.
For it to run on all operating systems I would use the following:
import os
path = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "plots.py")
os.system(f"py {plots.py}")
However
import os
os.system('py ./plots.py')
Seems to be the easiest solution on Ubuntu.
py – my macOS doesn't, for one. sys.executable would give you the path of the currently running Python interpreter.
os.system('py plots.py')?from . import plots?os.system()call exists. Look into usingsubprocess, a standard-library module literally made for the purpose of executing other programs within a python program