How to call perl script from Python?

[Jhonwho]

How to call perl script from Python?

I am new with Python.
I want to know If I can run a Perl script from Python? Please give me an example for doing this if its possible?

Thanks in advance.

[ProcalX]

Hi,

Do you have installed Perl engine & Python? Only python can't parse perl script.
If yes then its really easy. GO ahead.

[Jhonwho]

Actually what I want to do is, pipe an email text which is in a tring to the perl script & store the result in another variable. IS this possible? Please let me know how to do so?

Can I use OS.system for this I hope I can but not sure actually.

My system only have Python.

[amadeo]

Use subprocess. Here is the Python script:

#!/usr/bin/python

import subprocess

var = "hello"

pipe = subprocess.Popen(["./x.pl", var], stdout=subprocess.PIPE)

result = pipe.stdout.read()

print result

And here is the Perl script:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

my $name = shift;

print "hello $name!\n";