Howto Setup Environment to Run Python Scripts

This document describes how to setup an environment to run python scripts.

Python Version

Python 2.7 is preferred, if not available, need at least python 2.6 with argument parser support. Do not use python 3.0 and up as that is not backward compatible with 2.7.

Linux Platform

No additional software setup is needed on this platform.

Please make sure:

ccontrol is in $PATH if using InterSystems Caché.
mumps, mupip can be found using the $gtm_dist environment variable.

Windows Platform

Some additional software setup is needed on this platform.

pwin32 extension: A python windows extension used by winpexpect. To install python windows extension, please go to pwin32 extension files section and download right version of the windows installer.
plink: A command line interface to the PuTTY backend, together with winpexpect to interact with VistA instances via either telnet or ssh protocol.

Just download the executable plink.exe and put it under windows %PATH%.

Also make sure:

ccontrol.exe is under windows %PATH%.
Telnet port 23 is open and directly accessible in InterSystems Caché.