Today I came across this simple question about interacting with python from open-sourced *powershell*. It turns out it is so easy to do this using pythonnet! Note that powershell is also heavily using DLR. *http://stackoverflow.com/questions/39183614/how-system-consoleoutputencoding... <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/39183614/how-system-consoleoutputencoding-inputencoding-with-python>* Here is an old thread where using powershell was not possible. https://mail.python.org/pipermail/pythondotnet/2013-May/001371.html