Hello everyone. I am trying to call a python script from flexsim. The idea is getting some data from that python script and use it then in flexsim. What I want to do is to call it without being in the same directory as the model, meaning in an specific directory. Is it possible? Thanks in advance.
@rub, in calling a python script there are two programming languages involved: Python and C++. Each of them have a syntax to build a path to a file. I would think, that you can test each of them in your model and answer your question yourself.
At least there is an information that a python module can be in a subdirectory of a model file. Now it would be interesting to know if a traversal to an upper directory is possible by relative path description, too. And it would be interesting to investigate, if an absolute path description of a root directory is allowed.
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Add an empty text file to the directory containing your python module/script and name it __init__.py
In your model directory create a symbolic link to the directory containing your script. For example I put my 'central' python script in FlexSim's libraries folder and then ran this in the model folder via a command prompt:
mklink /D FlexSimLibs "C:/Program Files/FlexSim 2023/libraries"
Then the external python is set up using something like:
/**external python: */ /**/"FlexSimLibs.myPythonModule"/**/ /** \nfunction name:*/ /**/"myPythonFunction"/**/
where FlexSimLibs is the name of the symbolic link.
Thanks Jason, but I don't get the first part:
What do you mean by "symbolic link"? How am I supposed to run the script? Via FlexSim or CMD or Python?
Could you give me more detail regarding that part? Thanks!
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