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Re: How do i call a function written in mathematica from python

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• Subject: [mg39757] Re: [mg39750] How do i call a function written in mathematica from python
• From: Sseziwa Mukasa <mukasa at jeol.com>
• Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 02:35:19 -0500 (EST)
• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

On Wednesday, March 5, 2003, at 12:05 AM, Anand wrote:

> Hi,
>       someone has written a complex curvefitting in mathematica. I
> would like to call the mathematica function from python. To my
> understanding, the mathematica expects probably a path to where a
> bunch of text files are and will ouput the result as a file in the
> same directory.I have no experience with mathematica. Thanks for your
> help in advance.
>

Without any experience with Mathematica it would not be easy to do 
this.  It depends on how the function was written as a notebook or as a 
package, although you can turn the former into the latter and for your 
purposes probably want to.  Also there are two methods to access the 
kernel from external programs, Mathlink: a C interface which is 
probably easier from Python and J/Link a Java interface.  Finally again 
depending on the implementation the output may or may not be in a file.

I suggest 1) getting a copy of Mathematica and using the curve fit 
function from the notebook interface to get a feel for the Mathematica 
way of doing things.  This is also helpful in getting to step 2) 
writing some Mathlink or J/Link programs to interface with the curve 
fitting package (hopefully you have experience in calling external 
programs from Python).

Regards,

Ssezi