Running C++ executable from python script

Question

we are currently working on robot Pepper, more specific we are trying to prepare Pepper as welcome manager. So when robot gets input from human to go to a certain location, he should start specific dialog for that location and moving to that location. We did the navigation part in ROS and human-interaction part in Python using Python and Naoqi SDK. Now we want to run C++ exe that starts navigation in Python script. What is the simplest way to do that?

Answer 1

Relaying MA's answer here:

subprocess , eg subprocess.run(["your_exe", "first_arg"]) . You can also do things like capture stdout/stderr from the subprocess, check return code, wait for subprocess to complete.