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13 ## (at your option) any later version.
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17 ## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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18 ## GNU General Public License for more details.
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19 ##
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20 ## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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21 ## along with Octave; see the file COPYING. If not, see
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22 ## <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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24 ########################################################################
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26 ## -*- texinfo -*-
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27 ## @deftypefn {} {@var{output} =} python (@var{scriptfile})
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28 ## @deftypefnx {} {@var{output} =} python (@var{scriptfile}, @var{argument1}, @var{argument2}, @dots{})
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29 ## @deftypefnx {} {[@var{output}, @var{status}] =} python (@dots{})
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30 ## Invoke Python script @var{scriptfile}, possibly with a list of command line
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31 ## arguments.
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32 ##
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33 ## Return output in @var{output} and optional status in @var{status}. If
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34 ## @var{scriptfile} is not an absolute filename it is searched for in the
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35 ## current directory and then in the Octave loadpath.
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36 ##
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37 ## Programming Note: On UNIX systems, the script will be executed by
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38 ## @command{python3} and on Windows by @command{python}. You can override
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39 ## these defaults by setting the @env{PYTHON} environment variable, for example
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40 ## from within Octave using @code{setenv PYTHON /usr/local/bin/python3}.
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41 ##
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42 ## @seealso{system, perl}
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43 ## @end deftypefn
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45 function [output, status] = python (scriptfile, varargin)
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47 persistent pyexec = get_python_executable ();
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49 if (nargin < 1)
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50 print_usage ();
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51 endif
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53 if (! ischar (scriptfile) || isempty (scriptfile))
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54 error ("python: SCRIPTFILE must be a non-empty string");
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55 endif
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56 if (nargin > 1 && ! iscellstr (varargin))
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57 error ("python: ARGUMENTS must be strings");
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58 endif
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60 if (numel (scriptfile) < 2 || ! strcmp (scriptfile(1:2), "-c"))
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61 ## Attempt to find file in loadpath. No effect for absolute filenames.
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62 scriptfile = file_in_loadpath (scriptfile);
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63 endif
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65 [status, output] = system ([pyexec " " scriptfile, ...
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66 sprintf(" %s", varargin{:})]);
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68 endfunction
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70 function pyexec = get_python_executable ()
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72 pyexec = getenv ("PYTHON");
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73 if (isempty (pyexec))
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74 ## PEP394 says Python 3 installs should all provide this command
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75 pyexec = "python3";
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77 if (ispc () && (! isunix ()))
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78 ## 2020-03: Python.org installer/Anaconda do not provide python3
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79 pyexec = "python";
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80 endif
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81 endif
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83 endfunction
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86 ## Test input validation
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87 %!error <Invalid call> python ()
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88 %!error <SCRIPTFILE must be a non-empty string> python (123)
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89 %!error <SCRIPTFILE must be a non-empty string> python ("")
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90 %!error <ARGUMENTS must be strings> python ("pythonfile", 123)