[Tutor] Running program from Python

[Tino Dai]

On 7/20/07, Chris Smith <mc_anjo at tamu.edu> wrote:
>
> Howdy,
>
> I am working on some research. I'm trying to optimize the performance of
> an antenna. For the simulation of the antenna it would be easiest to use
> an antenna software package that I have in my lab. I know that Matlab
> can call the antenna software through a command called system. Matlab
> also uses system to pass a VB script file to the antenna software that
> tells the software what to do. However, I don't have access to Matlab in
> my lab.
>
> I use Python for a lot of program prototyping, and was looking through a
> Python reference book to see if there was something in there I could
> use. I ran across two functions that I thought might work. They are in
> the os module and are the different exec functions and also the spawnv
> function.
>
> The python program would run something like this:
> 1) optimization program comes up with initial variables to try
> 2) a VB script is generated
> 3) antenna program called and given the VB script
> 4) antenna program evaluates the antenna
> 5) results are sent back to optimization program
> 6) optimization program evaluates results and generates new variables
> 7) process from 2 on is repeated
>
> Would either of these two functions be what I need?
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Chris S.


=You might also want to try:
http://docs.python.org/lib/ipc.html to see if that is what you need

-Tino
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