Error installing Python on Matlab
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Hi
I'm trying to install python on Matlab2014b to call some Matlab script from Python. I add the Python path in Matlab and write the following command:
cd "matlabroot\extern\engines\python"
python setup.py install
(where matlabroot is the path where Matlab is installed) but I get the following error:
"Undefined function 'python' for input arguments of type 'char'"
I controlled and in the current folder the file"setup.py" exists. Where I am wrong?
thanks
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Bo Li
on 22 Sep 2016
You are supposed to run the command from the system prompt, not MATLAB command window:
"To install the engine API, execute the following commands at the operating system prompt, where matlabroot is the path to the MATLAB folder."
Reference:
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George
on 21 Sep 2016
Assuming that you're trying to execute the python command this won't work:
cd "matlabroot\extern\engines\python"
python setup.py install
because it's trying to interpret the python "word" as a valid MATLAB function or variable.
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