How to execute a python script from another python script?

[somialis]

I have a test environment in python. it is executed by the following command on the command prompt.
1) First i have to go to the dir where the .py file is
2) then i simply execute python filename.py and the GUI appears

Now i have to create a script which could open the GUI...i.e execute the command "python filename.py" from inside itself.. I tried the "system" command inside my script but the GUI did not appear.i.e i tried
system("python filename.py") but nothing appeared on the screen

Plz help.

[dshimer]

Forgive me if this seems too elementary, but without full code or output to examine I am stretching, did you import os? For example if test.py contains

import os
os.system('python hello.py')

and hello.py just prints hello, then

C:\tmp>python test.py
hello

should do what you are asking unless there are other path or module issues. When you say the GUI doesn't appear, does anything happen? Are there errors?
The python "Process Management" docs may be of help.

[ghostdog74]

Forgive me if this seems too elementary, but without full code or output to examine I am stretching, did you import os? For example if test.py contains

import os
os.system('python hello.py')

and hello.py just prints hello, then

C:\tmp>python test.py
hello

should do what you are asking unless there are other path or module issues. When you say the GUI doesn't appear, does anything happen? Are there errors?
The python "Process Management" docs may be of help.

to run another python script from your script:

import myscript
myscript.somefunc()
 

just like importing the standard modules.

[somialis]

Forgive me if this seems too elementary, but without full code or output to examine I am stretching, did you import os? For example if test.py contains

import os
os.system('python hello.py')

and hello.py just prints hello, then

C:\tmp>python test.py
hello

should do what you are asking unless there are other path or module issues. When you say the GUI doesn't appear, does anything happen? Are there errors?
The python "Process Management" docs may be of help.

Thanx for the prompt reply...but as u have asked...i had already imported os and executedthe following command from my python script:
os.system("python filename.py")

no error message was flagged and the command was successfully executed leading to the command prompt again but the GUI did not appear.
What could be the probable reason.??
Initially i used to run the GUI by simply typing:
python filename.py

[bartonc]

Thanx for the prompt reply...but as u have asked...i had already imported os and executedthe following command from my python script:
os.system("python filename.py")

no error message was flagged and the command was successfully executed leading to the command prompt again but the GUI did not appear.
What could be the probable reason.??
Initially i used to run the GUI by simply typing:
python filename.py

Is your GUI Tkinter, or some other toolkit?

[somialis]

Is your GUI Tkinter, or some other toolkit?

i don't know about the tool kit...
it was made for some testing puposes. i load my test files into that and press a runtest button.

[bartonc]

I have a test environment in python. it is executed by the following command on the command prompt.
1) First i have to go to the dir where the .py file is
2) then i simply execute python filename.py and the GUI appears

Now i have to create a script which could open the GUI...i.e execute the command "python filename.py" from inside itself.. I tried the "system" command inside my script but the GUI did not appear.i.e i tried
system("python filename.py") but nothing appeared on the screen

Plz help.

By any chance, do you give command line arguments when you call python manually? If so, try

system("python filename.py arg1 arg2") 

[somialis]

By any chance, do you give command line arguments when you call python manually? If so, try

system("python filename.py arg1 arg2") 

no there are no command line arguments . i just run python filename.py from the command prompt while running the GUI manually.

[ghostdog74]

no there are no command line arguments . i just run python filename.py from the command prompt while running the GUI manually.

personally, i would not recommend this method of calling a python script from anther. The "cleaner" approach is to import it.
for example , in script called myscriptA.py, you have

def displayGUI():
     print "I am from myscriptA.py in functoin displayGUI"
     return
 

then in myscriptB.py, you can call your GUI display function like this

import myscriptA ##or from myscriptA import displayGUI
myscriptA.displayGUI()
 

[Thekid]

Hi, I'm just trying to follow along and had a question.....is it that your script will run in a dos window but what you want is for it to run on IDLE?

ex:

>>> for i in range(5):
             print i
 
 
1
2
3
4
>>>
 
 

so if your saved that script as loop.py:

for i in range(5):
    print i
 

and then wrote:

import os,sys
os.system(r"C:\python25\loop.py")
 

then saved it as testrun.py. If you execute testrun.py, it runs the loop in a dos window but you want it to execute and print out to IDLE instead? Is that it, or am I on the wrong track in trying follow?

[somialis]

Hi...
i guess my question is not clear...

i have a test environment. The GUI for the environment appears when on the DOS window i type the following command:

python filename.py

A window appears where in i can load my tests and then click on the tab in the GUI which says run tests.

Now the situation is...i am supposed to do some initial processing before loading the tests.....which includes opening a csv file thru a python script,reading a particular row of the csv file,gettings inputs from there and then loading the test files in the GUI.

so i am supposed to open the GUI after all this processing...from the python script and no more by typing command on the DOS window.

i tried to execute the same command : python filename.py from the python script like this:

import os

os.system("python filename.py")

but it did not wrk...
what shud i do

[bartonc]

Hi...
i guess my question is not clear...

i have a test environment. The GUI for the environment appears when on the DOS window i type the following command:

python filename.py

A window appears where in i can load my tests and then click on the tab in the GUI which says run tests.

Now the situation is...i am supposed to do some initial processing before loading the tests.....which includes opening a csv file thru a python script,reading a particular row of the csv file,gettings inputs from there and then loading the test files in the GUI.

so i am supposed to open the GUI after all this processing...from the python script and no more by typing command on the DOS window.

i tried to execute the same command : python filename.py from the python script like this:

import os

os.system("python filename.py")

but it did not wrk...
what shud i do

Here is a basic Tkinter GUI probram that doesn't do anything except put a button in a frame:

# TkButtonFrame.py'
from Tkinter import *
 
class TestFrame(Frame):
    def __init__(self, parent, *args, **kwargs):
        Frame.__init__(self, parent)
        self.testButton = Button(text='Run Test')
        self.testButton.pack()
 
 
 
if __name__ == "__main__":
    root = Tk()
    testFrame = TestFrame(root)
    testFrame.pack()
    root.mainloop()
 

It does have the __main__ "guard" in it that I thought might cause the problem.

Here is the command module:

# rungui.py
import os
os.system('python TkButtonFrame.py')
 

If you run the command rungui.py, the GUI will appear.
If it looks like your test program, then the toolkit used to make it is Tkinter.
If you put these modules into your test environment and they don't work, then something (most likely PYTHONPATH) is not set up correctly.

[bartonc]

Here is a basic Tkinter GUI probram that doesn't do anything except put a button in a frame:

# TkButtonFrame.py'
from Tkinter import *
 
class TestFrame(Frame):
    def __init__(self, parent, *args, **kwargs):
        Frame.__init__(self, parent)
        self.testButton = Button(text='Run Test')
        self.testButton.pack()
 
 
 
if __name__ == "__main__":
    root = Tk()
    testFrame = TestFrame(root)
    testFrame.pack()
    root.mainloop()
 

It does have the __main__ "guard" in it that I thought might cause the problem.

Here is the command module:

# rungui.py
import os
os.system('python TkButtonFrame.py')
 

If you run the command rungui.py, the GUI will appear.
If it looks like your test program, then the toolkit used to make it is Tkinter.
If you put these modules into your test environment and they don't work, then something (most likely PYTHONPATH) is not set up correctly.

It's important to note that

import TkButtonFrame

WILL NOT WORK because of the if __name__ == "__main__": guard.

[somialis]

Here is a basic Tkinter GUI probram that doesn't do anything except put a button in a frame:

# TkButtonFrame.py'
from Tkinter import *
 
class TestFrame(Frame):
    def __init__(self, parent, *args, **kwargs):
        Frame.__init__(self, parent)
        self.testButton = Button(text='Run Test')
        self.testButton.pack()
 
 
 
if __name__ == "__main__":
    root = Tk()
    testFrame = TestFrame(root)
    testFrame.pack()
    root.mainloop()
 

It does have the __main__ "guard" in it that I thought might cause the problem.

Here is the command module:

# rungui.py
import os
os.system('python TkButtonFrame.py')
 

If you run the command rungui.py, the GUI will appear.
If it looks like your test program, then the toolkit used to make it is Tkinter.
If you put these modules into your test environment and they don't work, then something (most likely PYTHONPATH) is not set up correctly.

The __main__ of my test file looks like this:

# if running standalone
if __name__ == "__main__":
    app = MyApp(0)  # Create an instance of the application class
    app.MainLoop()  # Tell it to start processing events
 
# End of Program

[bartonc]

The __main__ of my test file looks like this:

# if running standalone
if __name__ == "__main__":
    app = MyApp(0)  # Create an instance of the application class
    app.MainLoop()  # Tell it to start processing events
 
# End of Program

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So how is the class MyApp defined?

[somialis]

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So how is the class MyApp defined?

Class MyaApp is as follows:

 
class MyApp(wx.App):
    # wxWindows calls this method to initialize the application
    def OnInit(self, operator=None):
 
        # Create an instance of our customized Frame class
        frame = MyFrame(None, -1, "PetShopTest")
        frame.Show(1)
        # and let wxWindows know that is our main window...
        self.SetTopWindow(frame)
 
        # we need to return a success flag (to keep wxWindows happy)...
        return 1
 
 

[bartonc]

Class MyaApp is as follows:

 
class MyApp(wx.App):
    # wxWindows calls this method to initialize the application
    def OnInit(self, operator=None):
 
        # Create an instance of our customized Frame class
        frame = MyFrame(None, -1, "PetShopTest")
        frame.Show(1)
        # and let wxWindows know that is our main window...
        self.SetTopWindow(frame)
 
        # we need to return a success flag (to keep wxWindows happy)...
        return 1
 
 

Awesome! Your GUI Toolkit is wxPython. It's the best in my opinion.
Since this should work, there can be only one reson why it doesn't:
Python doesn't know how to find your program (you've been calling it "filename.py). You probably need to specify the entire path in the command. Use raw strings for path names on windows:

r"D:\Python24\Lib\filename.py"

Or you can add the path to the environment variable called PYTHONPATH in the operating system. Or you can put path into a file with any name (say) testpath.pth into the D:\Python24\Lib\site-packages (on my system) directory. The .pth extention tells python to add whaterver is in that file to sys.path.

[sandeepyadav147]

bro use 'py' in cmd instead of 'python'.if it works or you may need to setup path.
its just an assumption. :))