Hi Monks I am trying to run a Perl script from Python in Windows. It is my first attempt and I am getting nowhere. My code for running a Hello World program in Perl, from Python is given below. 
import subprocess, sys

perl = "C:\\Perl64\\bin\\perl.exe" 
perl_script "C:\\vub_work\\py_learn\\hello.pl"

pl_script = subprocess.Popen([perl, perl_script], stdout=sys.stdout) 
pl_script.communicate()

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I end up getting up the following error: 
 File "<ipython-input-5-d6c6696cc648>", line 4
    perl_script "C:\\vub_work\\py_learn\\hello.pl"
                ^ 
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

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It would be great if you could help.

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In reply to (OT) Help with running a Perl script from Python by always_coys

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