How to call a *.jsl script from python script

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I have a python script running. I want to call *.jsl script in my running python script and want to make use of it's output in python. May I know how can I do that?

What's a jmp script? (The tag you're using seems to apply entirely to the ASM instruction...) (And whatever it is, you probably want to look at the subprocess module). — Wooble, Jul 29 '13 at 18:30

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 15 '14 at 18:30

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You should take a look at the JMP automation guide.

You can automate JMP from Python using the win32com interface, which is unfortunately quite buggy and incomplete. I've written a custom library of code to work around these issues, largely because my job requires me to work with JMP extensively and its built-in jsl programming language is awful at many things.

answered Sep 15 '14 at 18:30

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FYI: the link to the JMP automation guide is inactive. – Hector Jan 27 '23 at 17:36

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 20 '16 at 02:27

Make sure jmp.exe is available in your system environment so that if you type "jmp.exe" in the command line, it would launch jmp. Then have your *.jsl ready. use python procees to run this command "jmp.exe *.jsl" and that would open jmp and run the *.jsl script and then you can import whatever you generate from jmp back in to python.

score -1 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 05 '17 at 02:54

I'm on a Mac, and this works

import os
os.system('open /Applications/JMP\ Pro\ 13.app/Contents/MacOS/JMP /path/filename.jsl')

there is a space between the path/executable and the path/name.

In your JSL make sure the first line only has //! This will make the script auto-run when its opened. Also, use quit(); as the last line, that way the instance of JMP that is opened gets closed.

Reference this link on using os: How can I launch an instance of an application using Python?

How to call a *.jsl script from python script

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