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Coders/software monkeys - I need help understanding how to compile / run a program again

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So I haven't done much programming lately. And I am really trying to understand some fundamentals again.

I want to write something in Python. I understand how to write the software. What I can't remember (or never really understood) was how to compile and run something outside of something like visual studio (I've done a lot of matlab, but that is completely different)

Talking Windows: Let's say I have a python script sitting in a folder. To start with: Do I need some kind of compiler to "build" an executable? I need an ELI5 version
 
Scheduled task will run a script for you, I do this on some python scripts that pull wireless statistics for a client. Control panel/Administrative tools/scheduled tasks then create a basic task and point it at the python script you need to run.
 
tiderollsonu said:
Scheduled task will run a script for you, I do this on some python scripts that pull wireless statistics for a client. Control panel/Administrative tools/scheduled tasks then create a basic task and point it at the python script you need to run.
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So I read that python is a "compiled language" which I guess means I don't need a compiler.

I don't need anything scheduled, just something that I can run when I want to
 
I was able to build an h5 file. I basically copied what that other dude did.

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Then I went to the anacando prompt executable, navigated to the right folder that contained my filed, and then typed "python h5test.py'

Now I need to figure out how to read into the h5 file
 
Croot_Overlord said:
So I haven't done much programming lately. And I am really trying to understand some fundamentals again.

I want to write something in Python. I understand how to write the software. What I can't remember (or never really understood) was how to compile and run something outside of something like visual studio (I've done a lot of matlab, but that is completely different)

Talking Windows: Let's say I have a python script sitting in a folder. To start with: Do I need some kind of compiler to "build" an executable? I need an ELI5 version
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You can just run it as an argument to a python command.

ex: python foo.py
 
Croot_Overlord said:
I was able to build an h5 file. I basically copied what that other dude did.

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Then I went to the anacando prompt executable, navigated to the right folder that contained my filed, and then typed "python h5test.py'

Now I need to figure out how to read into the h5 file
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Ah you need to install the python dependencies. You can start by running “pip install [packagename]” for each package you are referencing (from a command line in your source tree directory). If you want to automatically do it, you can put your dependency package names into a requirements file.

Disclaimer: python is not my primary coding language, but I have written several pieces of software with it. Just realize my practices may not be best practices.
 
My bad I misunderstood what you were asking I think. The h5 file is a data file? Seems like the code is reading the file already, unless your path is invalid. But I see you are creating a dataset but doing nothing with it. (What I call the Bridge to Nowhere Antipattern 😂)
 
Hoppo said:
Ah you need to install the python dependencies. You can start by running “pip install [packagename]” for each package you are referencing (from a command line in your source tree directory). If you want to automatically do it, you can put your dependency package names into a requirements file.

Disclaimer: python is not my primary coding language, but I have written several pieces of software with it. Just realize my practices may not be best practices.
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Well this was one of my problems for sure. I fixed it by installing anaconda which already had all the libraries.
 
Hoppo said:
My bad I misunderstood what you were asking I think. The h5 file is a data file? Seems like the code is reading the file already, unless your path is invalid. But I see you are creating a dataset but doing nothing with it. (What I call the Bridge to Nowhere Antipattern 😂)
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You are right, my goal was to take an h5 file and output it as a csv. I needed a sample h5 because I didn't have access to it from my current pc.

But now I've got this:

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and I have been successful in my original problem, but now I have to scale this too much much larger complex data sets.
 
Croot_Overlord said:
You are right, my goal was to take an h5 file and output it as a csv. I needed a sample h5 because I didn't have access to it from my current pc.

But now I've got this:

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and I have been successful in my original problem, but now I have to scale this too much much larger complex data sets.
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When you say scale, what specifically is the problem you’re looking to overcome?
 
Download Visual Studio Code, and get the extensions you want (Python, etc). Code is the best environment to write and debug PowerShell too.

You could also get the Visual Studio 2022 Community edition and install the Python modules for it too. I don't program in Python, but I do have both of those apps installed. I thought it would be nice to play around with Python some time.
 

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