How to Execute Python Script from Java (Via Command Line)

How to execute Python script from Java (via command line)?

You cannot use the PIPE inside the Runtime.getRuntime().exec() as you do in your example. PIPE is part of the shell.

You could do either

• Put your command to a shell script and execute that shell script with .exec() or

• You can do something similar to the following

  String[] cmd = {
          "/bin/bash",
          "-c",
          "echo password | python script.py '" + packet.toString() + "'"
      };
  Runtime.getRuntime().exec(cmd);
  

Run python script through Java with files arguments

Unlike python Java may need some help. Do I guess correctly you are running on Windows?

You invoke the Runtime.exec() method. The method returns a Process instance, and in it's documentation you can read

By default, the created process does not have its own terminal or
console. All its standard I/O (i.e. stdin, stdout, stderr) operations
will be redirected to the parent process, where they can be accessed
via the streams obtained using the methods getOutputStream(),
getInputStream(), and getErrorStream(). The parent process uses these
streams to feed input to and get output from the process. Because some
native platforms only provide limited buffer size for standard input
and output streams, failure to promptly write the input stream or read
the output stream of the process may cause the process to block, or
even deadlock.

So it is likely your process is started by the OS but gets blocked due to I/O restrictions. Get around that by reading the STDOUT and STDERR streams until your process finishes. One good programming model is visible at https://www.baeldung.com/run-shell-command-in-java

How to call a Python script with arguments from Java class

Have you looked at these? They suggest different ways of doing this:

Call Python code from Java by passing parameters and results

How to call a python method from a java class?

In short one solution could be:

public void runPython() 
{ //need to call myscript.py and also pass arg1 as its arguments.
  //and also myscript.py path is in C:\Demo\myscript.py

    String[] cmd = {
      "python",
      "C:/Demo/myscript.py",
      this.arg1,
    };
    Runtime.getRuntime().exec(cmd);
}

edit: just make sure you change the variable name from str to something else, as noted by cdarke

Your python code (change str to something else, e.g. arg and specify a path for file):

def returnvalue(arg) :
    if arg == "hi" :
        return "yes"
    return "no"
print("calling python function with parameters:")
print(sys.argv[1])
arg = sys.argv[1]
res = returnvalue(arg)
print(res)
with open("C:/path/to/where/you/want/file.txt", 'w') as target:  # specify path or else it will be created where you run your java code
    target.write(res)

Run Python script through Java with importing just once

You could communicate between java and Python with pipes.

You run your Python as you do now (without command line args)

Python script

you write an infinite loop in python that will

2. read data from the
   standard input (it will be your arg for the function)

3. You call your function

4. you write the answer to the standard output

Java

1. Write a method for sending args to python

2. write to the pipe the arg of your function

3. read the answer from the pipe

You're done.

Here is some snippet

Here how you create your tube

        Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(commande);
        BufferedReader output = getOutput(p); //from python to java
        BufferedReader error = getError(p); //from python to java
        PrintWriter input  = getInput(p); //from java to python

private static BufferedReader getOutput(Process p) {
    return new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(p.getInputStream()));
}
private static BufferedReader getError(Process p) {
    return new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(p.getErrorStream()));
}    
private static PrintWriter getInput(Process p){
    return new PrintWriter (new OutputStreamWriter(p.getOutputStream()));
}

Running a .py file from Java

You can use like this also:

String command = "python /c start python path\to\script\script.py";
Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(command + param );

or

String prg = "import sys";
BufferedWriter out = new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter("path/a.py"));
out.write(prg);
out.close();
Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec("python path/a.py");
BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(p.getInputStream()));
String ret = in.readLine();
System.out.println("value is : "+ret);

Run Python script from Java

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