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doc: which Python executable and how to change it (bug #62733)
* python.m: Document difference between Unix and Windows. Fix whitespace.
author | Colin Macdonald <cbm@m.fsf.org> |
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date | Sat, 09 Jul 2022 22:05:40 -0700 |
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######################################################################## ## ## Copyright (C) 2008-2022 The Octave Project Developers ## ## See the file COPYRIGHT.md in the top-level directory of this ## distribution or <https://octave.org/copyright/>. ## ## This file is part of Octave. ## ## Octave is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it ## under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by ## the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or ## (at your option) any later version. ## ## Octave is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but ## WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of ## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the ## GNU General Public License for more details. ## ## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License ## along with Octave; see the file COPYING. If not, see ## <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. ## ######################################################################## ## -*- texinfo -*- ## @deftypefn {} {@var{output} =} python (@var{scriptfile}) ## @deftypefnx {} {@var{output} =} python (@var{scriptfile}, @var{argument1}, @var{argument2}, @dots{}) ## @deftypefnx {} {[@var{output}, @var{status}] =} python (@dots{}) ## Invoke Python script @var{scriptfile}, possibly with a list of command line ## arguments. ## ## Return output in @var{output} and optional status in @var{status}. If ## @var{scriptfile} is not an absolute filename it is searched for in the ## current directory and then in the Octave loadpath. ## ## Programming Note: On UNIX systems, the script will be executed by ## @command{python3} and on Windows by @command{python}. You can override ## these defaults by setting the @env{PYTHON} environment variable, for example ## from within Octave using @code{setenv PYTHON /usr/local/bin/python3}. ## ## @seealso{system, perl} ## @end deftypefn function [output, status] = python (scriptfile, varargin) persistent pyexec = get_python_executable (); if (nargin < 1) print_usage (); endif if (! ischar (scriptfile) || isempty (scriptfile)) error ("python: SCRIPTFILE must be a non-empty string"); endif if (nargin > 1 && ! iscellstr (varargin)) error ("python: ARGUMENTS must be strings"); endif if (numel (scriptfile) < 2 || ! strcmp (scriptfile(1:2), "-c")) ## Attempt to find file in loadpath. No effect for absolute filenames. scriptfile = file_in_loadpath (scriptfile); endif [status, output] = system ([pyexec " " scriptfile, ... sprintf(" %s", varargin{:})]); endfunction function pyexec = get_python_executable () pyexec = getenv ("PYTHON"); if (isempty (pyexec)) ## PEP394 says Python 3 installs should all provide this command pyexec = "python3"; if (ispc () && (! isunix ())) ## 2020-03: Python.org installer/Anaconda do not provide python3 pyexec = "python"; endif endif endfunction ## Test input validation %!error <Invalid call> python () %!error <SCRIPTFILE must be a non-empty string> python (123) %!error <SCRIPTFILE must be a non-empty string> python ("") %!error <ARGUMENTS must be strings> python ("pythonfile", 123)