If I want to make Python or MATLAB, invoke subprocesses in programs like Robot, Revit, OpenSeeS, EnergyPlus etc., is there a general theory behing all these?
I am interested in getting specific outputs when performing commands from MATLAB or Python.
You may prefer to use the Wolfram MATHEMATICS package and try to connect your modules through the built-in SI code interpreter.
Check out the subprocess module
Here is the link to the documentation: http://docs.python.org/3.2/library/subprocess.html
An example would be like this:
subprocess.check_call(["C:\Revit.exe", "your_argument", "your_argument", "your_argument", "your_argument"])
In computer science, this is known as inter-process communication. More specifically, when a process spawns a sub-process, it is referred to as a child process. A parent process and a child process can communicate using an Unnamed Pipe. Independent processes (on the same machine) can communicate using Named Pipes.
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