Has anyone tried importing Python libraries (e.g. numpy) to Visual Components? Please advise how to do this

[AssadF]

Trying to create an application to do some maths inside the model.

[Unnahi]

Integration of numpy

I would say that VC is unlikely to ever support all the libraries one might want to use, because any C modules need to both support the stackless Python and be compiled with the correct toolchain to work. The Python in VC is really meant just for simulation configuration and implementing simulation logic, its not a general-purpose Python environment in that sense. If you only need to do “offline” analysis of data, i.e. the results aren’t needed during simulation, using external environment for …

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[AssadF]

Thanks, Unnahi, this is really useful. Is there any available example about calling the external Python 3 shell?

[Este]

Hi @AssadF

You could use the python subprocess module to call external python interpreter with a given python file as an argument.

Example:

import subprocess
process = subprocess.Popen(["C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\python.exe", "C:\Users\XXX\Desktop\MyPythonFile.py"])
process.communicate()[0]

[AssadF]

Sounds really helpful!
Thanks, @Este, really appreciated!