How to make a django rest api run a python file in my computer

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I am making an API for an android app. As soon as the input is given to the API, I need the API to execute a python file for me which is in my computer. I'm thinking of using my computer as a server on trial basis. I hope you are able to understand my question. Please let me know on how to run a python file from the API

Alvaro Bataller · Accepted Answer · 2020-02-29 05:52:38Z

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You can have a view that when someone visits the url it will launch another process:

from django.http import HttpResponse
from django.views.generic import View
import subprocess

class ExecutePythonFileView(View):
    def get(self, request):
        # Execute script
        subprocess.call(['python', 'somescript.py'])

        # Return response
        return HttpResponse("Executed!")

answered Feb 29, 2020 at 5:52

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Alvaro Bataller Over a year ago

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