Presentation on how a LabVIEW developer can access a Python developers module(file) and functions using the -c command line mode

Helpful links

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3987041/run-function-from-the-command-line
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4383571/importing-files-from-different-folder
• National Instrument’s website
• LabVIEW® is a National Instrument product.
• Presentation created as a possible starting point for your LV / Python adventure.
• Use at your own risk
• This post is not connected or endorsed by any company.
  Created to spark ideas on the subject.

Updated: Nov 02 2023

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• Presentation: A way to call python functions from a script using system exec
• Programming Language used:
  • LabVIEW® 2019 Base version (which only supports 2.7 and 3.6, but I need 3.7 or 3.11)
  • Python® 3.7 and 3.11 (conda environment that was made via Anaconda®)
• LabVIEW® is a NI (formally National Instruments) product, now part of Emerson
• Presentation app: Microsoft’s PowerPoint
• Presentation shown to spark ideas of use.
• Help resource:
  • Stackoverflow®
    • Google®’s Converse
      • Bing®’s AI Chat
• This presentation is not connected to or endorsed by any company.
• Use at your own risk.
• Tags: LabVIEW®, Python®, SystemExec, Script, Editor, Python environment, Conda environments
• In this presentation, the LV vi and the python script are in the SAME folder
• Default for python field is python.exe if you want a different evns use the full path as done in the presentation
  • C:\Users\( )\Anaconda3\envs\py3p11\python.exe (py3p11 is what i name my conda for python version 3.11