Running an interactive python script in C#

Question

I've searched for a way to do this but have so far not been successful.

My question is similar to this one: How do I run a Python script from C#?

But in my case, the script goes more like this:

def main():
  i = raw_input("i = ")

I can redirect the output fine by creating a process like the following:

ProcessStartInfo info = new ProcessStartInfo("cmd", "/c python myFile.py");

How would I send input back to it?

Please note, the python script can be anything. I don't know when an input might be expected so using a streamwriter to write to the process by setting redirectStandardInput to true doesn't work..

Any help would be great. Thanks all!

Answer 1

You will have to redirect the stdin of your process. Here is a full example of how you can do that:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.diagnostics.processstartinfo.redirectstandardinput.aspx