run python from a tcl/tk GUI

[SunX]

Gurus;
Just wrote a front-end GUI with tcl/tk to take user input. Want to
push a button on the GUI to start running a python script. I know one
can use exec in tcl to run .exe files, but not .py or .pyc, correct?
Help on how to do this is highly appreciated.
Many thanks
Howard

[Michael Fuhr]

xi*********@yahoo.com (SunX) writes:

Just wrote a front-end GUI with tcl/tk to take user input. Want to
push a button on the GUI to start running a python script.
Is there a reason not to write the entire GUI in Python and use
Tkinter or wxPython?
I know one can use exec in tcl to run .exe files, but not .py or
.pyc, correct?

Sounds like a platform-specific issue; since you mention .exe files,
I assume you're running some flavor of Windows. One can certainly
run .py and .pyc files from a Tcl/Tk script on Unix-like systems.
What does your code look like?

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[SunX]

mf***@fuhr.org (Michael Fuhr) wrote in message news:<41********@omega.dimensional.com>...

xi*********@yahoo.com (SunX) writes:

Just wrote a front-end GUI with tcl/tk to take user input. Want to
push a button on the GUI to start running a python script.

Is there a reason not to write the entire GUI in Python and use
Tkinter or wxPython?

I know one can use exec in tcl to run .exe files, but not .py or
.pyc, correct?

Sounds like a platform-specific issue; since you mention .exe files,
I assume you're running some flavor of Windows. One can certainly
run .py and .pyc files from a Tcl/Tk script on Unix-like systems.
What does your code look like?

Sorry I forgot to mention that it was on windows. But found out that
one way to do this is "exec ~/python.exe myScript.py".