Running powershell script within python script, how to make python print the powershell output while it is running

Question

I am writing a python script which checks various conditions and runs a powershell script accordingly to help me automate migration from windows XP to windows 7. The powersh

Answer 1

1. Make sure you can run powershell scripts (it is disabled by default). Likely you have already done this. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee176949.aspx

   Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned
   

2. Run this python script on your powershell script helloworld.py:

   # -*- coding: iso-8859-1 -*-
   import subprocess, sys
   
   p = subprocess.Popen(["powershell.exe", 
                 "C:\\Users\\USER\\Desktop\\helloworld.ps1"], 
                 stdout=sys.stdout)
   p.communicate()
   

This code is based on python3.4 (or any 3.x series interpreter), though it should work on python2.x series as well.

C:\Users\MacEwin\Desktop>python helloworld.py
Hello World

Answer 2

I don't have Python 2.7 installed, but in Python 3.3 calling Popen with stdout set to sys.stdout worked just fine. Not before I had escaped the backslashes in the path, though.

>>> import subprocess
>>> import sys
>>> p = subprocess.Popen(['powershell.exe', 'C:\\Temp\\test.ps1'], stdout=sys.stdout)
>>> Hello World
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