How to execute a .class file(java) from .py script?

Question

I was doing a project on my RaspberyPi, when I stumbled onto this problem: I need a python script to run a java file, but can't find a way to do that. The files are start.py and main.class and are in the same folder.

Answer 1

What you want to do is use python to execute a bash command (assuming you're on linux), you'd use the same command to run a java file which is java main where main is main.class

here's a simple script that uses subprocess to run the command

import subprocess


cmd = 'java main'.split(' ')
subprocess.run(cmd)