How to use Python in .NET-Core application?

Question

How to use Python in .NET-Core application? I need this for the purposes of Hackathon so the solution don't have to be 'elegant'. I've read that it's impassible to run Python scripts directly because there exists only library IronPython for standard ASP.NET but no for .NET-Core. So what is the simplest way to use Python scripts? (Because it's hackathon it's ok to use even PHP server or selenium etc. only to execute script)

Answer 1

Try this

public class RunCmd
{
    public string Run(string cmd, string args)
    {
        ProcessStartInfo start = new ProcessStartInfo();
        start.FileName = "python";
        start.Arguments = string.Format("\"{0}\" \"{1}\"", cmd, args);
        start.UseShellExecute = false;// Do not use OS shell
        start.CreateNoWindow = true; // We don't need new window
        start.RedirectStandardOutput = true;// Any output, generated by application will be redirected back
        start.RedirectStandardError = true; // Any error in standard output will be redirected back (for example exceptions)
        using (Process process = Process.Start(start))
        {
            using (StreamReader reader = process.StandardOutput)
            {
                string stderr = process.StandardError.ReadToEnd(); // Here are the exceptions from our Python script
                string result = reader.ReadToEnd(); // Here is the result of StdOut(for example: print "test")
                return result;
            }
        }
    }
}

Then

 var res = new RunCmd().Run("your_python_file.py","params");
 Console.WriteLine(res);