How to call a Python function from Node.js

Question

I have an Express Node.js application, but I also have a machine learning algorithm to use in Python. Is there a way I can call Python functions from my Node.js application

Answer 1

Most of previous answers call the success of the promise in the on("data"), it is not the proper way to do it because if you receive a lot of data you will only get the first part. Instead you have to do it on the end event.

const { spawn } = require('child_process');
const pythonDir = (__dirname + "/../pythonCode/"); // Path of python script folder
const python = pythonDir + "pythonEnv/bin/python"; // Path of the Python interpreter

/** remove warning that you don't care about */
function cleanWarning(error) {
    return error.replace(/Detector is not able to detect the language reliably.\n/g,"");
}

function callPython(scriptName, args) {
    return new Promise(function(success, reject) {
        const script = pythonDir + scriptName;
        const pyArgs = [script, JSON.stringify(args) ]
        const pyprog = spawn(python, pyArgs );
        let result = "";
        let resultError = "";
        pyprog.stdout.on('data', function(data) {
            result += data.toString();
        });

        pyprog.stderr.on('data', (data) => {
            resultError += cleanWarning(data.toString());
        });

        pyprog.stdout.on("end", function(){
            if(resultError == "") {
                success(JSON.parse(result));
            }else{
                console.error(`Python error, you can reproduce the error with: \n${python} ${script} ${pyArgs.join(" ")}`);
                const error = new Error(resultError);
                console.error(error);
                reject(resultError);
            }
        })
   });
}
module.exports.callPython = callPython;

Call:

const pythonCaller = require("../core/pythonCaller");
const result = await pythonCaller.callPython("preprocessorSentiment.py", {"thekeyYouwant": value});

python:

try:
    argu = json.loads(sys.argv[1])
except:
    raise Exception("error while loading argument")