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changeset 13163:2ca9730d35ba
python: new function to invoke python scripts from octave code
author | Carnë Draug <carandraug+dev@gmail.com> |
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date | Mon, 19 Sep 2011 22:52:47 +0100 |
parents | 4e92b71dcc97 |
children | 36afcd6fc45f |
files | scripts/miscellaneous/module.mk scripts/miscellaneous/python.m |
diffstat | 2 files changed, 46 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/scripts/miscellaneous/module.mk +++ b/scripts/miscellaneous/module.mk @@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ miscellaneous/paren.m \ miscellaneous/parseparams.m \ miscellaneous/perl.m \ + miscellaneous/python.m \ miscellaneous/rmappdata.m \ miscellaneous/run.m \ miscellaneous/semicolon.m \
new file mode 100644 --- /dev/null +++ b/scripts/miscellaneous/python.m @@ -0,0 +1,45 @@ +## Copyright (C) 2008-2011 Julian Schnidder +## Copyright (C) 2011 Carnë Draug <carandraug+dev@gmail.com> +## +## 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 +## <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. + +## -*- texinfo -*- +## @deftypefn {Function File} {[@var{output}, @var{status}] =} python (@var{scriptfile}) +## @deftypefnx {Function File} {[@var{output}, @var{status}] =} python (@var{scriptfile}, @var{argument1}, @var{argument2}, @dots{}) +## Invoke python script @var{scriptfile} with possibly a list of +## command line arguments. +## Returns output in @var{output} and status +## in @var{status}. +## @seealso{system} +## @end deftypefn + +function [output, status] = python (scriptfile = "-c ''", varargin) + + ## VARARGIN is intialized to {}(1x0) if no additional arguments are + ## supplied, so there is no need to check for it, or provide an + ## initial value in the argument list of the function definition. + + if (ischar (scriptfile) + && ((nargin != 1 && iscellstr (varargin)) + || (nargin == 1 && ! isempty (scriptfile)))) + [status, output] = system (cstrcat ("python ", scriptfile, + sprintf (" %s", varargin{:}))); + else + error ("python: invalid arguments"); + endif + +endfunction