How to run a python script from java?

Question

I have this java application and ran into a requirement to parse an STDF.

Actually all I needed is to get the FAR,MIR and MRR sections of an stdf file. There exists

Answer 1

You should perhaps call p.waitFor(); so that your Java program doesn't move on until after the external process has finished executing.

Update 1: Also make sure you are reading all the bytes out of p.getErrorStream() and p.getInputStream(). Failure to do so may hang the process.

Update 2: You may also want to check the process return code for an error code. The process return code is accessed via waitFor()'s return value.