Calling python script from C#

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I have a C# code which helps to run python environment first and then it executes my python process. But the problem is it takes a lot of time to execute.

Actually i just want to pass my values and execute single line of code in python script. But need to execute all python code every time. Is there a way to run python process out side and just run the single line when i want.

I attached both C# code and python process with this

C# Code

public String  Insert(float[] values)

        {
            // full path of python interpreter
            string python = @"C:\ProgramData\Anaconda2\python.exe";

            // python app to call
            string myPythonApp = @"C:\classification.py";

            // dummy parameters to send Python script 
            //int x = 2;
            //int y = 5;

            // Create new process start info
            ProcessStartInfo myProcessStartInfo = new ProcessStartInfo(python);

            // make sure we can read the output from stdout
            myProcessStartInfo.UseShellExecute = false;
            myProcessStartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = true;
            myProcessStartInfo.CreateNoWindow = true;
            myProcessStartInfo.WindowStyle = ProcessWindowStyle.Minimized;

            // start python app with 3 arguments 
            // 1st arguments is pointer to itself, 2nd and 3rd are actual arguments we want to send
            myProcessStartInfo.Arguments = myPythonApp + " " + values[0] + " " + values[1] + " " + values[2] + " " + values[3] + " " + values[4] + " " + values[5];

            Process myProcess = new Process();
            // assign start information to the process
            myProcess.StartInfo = myProcessStartInfo;


            myProcess.Start();

            // Read the standard output of the app we called. 
            // in order to avoid deadlock we will read output first and then wait for process terminate:
            StreamReader myStreamReader = myProcess.StandardOutput;
            string myString = myStreamReader.ReadLine();

            /*if you need to read multiple lines, you might use:
                string myString = myStreamReader.ReadToEnd() */

            // wait exit signal from the app we called and then close it.
            myProcess.WaitForExit();

            myProcess.Close();

            // write the output we got from python app
            Console.WriteLine("Value received from script: " + myString);
            Console.WriteLine("Value received from script: " + myString);

And python Script

import numpy as np
import sys

val1 = float(sys.argv[1]) 
val2 = float(sys.argv[2]) 
val3 = float(sys.argv[3]) 
val4 = float(sys.argv[4]) 
val5 = float(sys.argv[5]) 
val6 = float(sys.argv[6]) 



# Load dataset
url = "F:\FINAL YEAR PROJECT\Amila\data2.csv"
names = ['JawLower', 'BrowLower', 'BrowRaiser', 'LipCornerDepressor', 'LipRaiser','LipStretcher','Emotion_Id']
dataset = pandas.read_csv(url, names=names)

# shape
# print(dataset.shape)


# class distribution
# print(dataset.groupby('Emotion_Id').size())


# Split-out validation dataset
array = dataset.values
X = array[:,0:6]
Y = array[:,6]
neigh = KNeighborsClassifier(n_neighbors=3)


neigh.fit(X, Y) 

print(neigh.predict([[val1,val2,val3,val4,val5,val6]]))

print(neigh.predict([[val1,val2,val3,val4,val5,val6]])) this is the line of code i want to execute separatly.

3 Answers

Why don't you actually use Python to run the code instead of embedding in C#? How are you going to deploy on another machine with Python dependencies?

If you would like to build machine learning models there are many frameworks like http://accord-framework.net/ for classic machine learning algorithms

Also try my project as well: deepakkumar1984/SiaNet (https://github.com/deepakkumar1984/SiaNet) Its a C# wrapper with CNTK backend. Trying to implement keras like wrapper. Hope it helps!

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