[GRASS-dev] running grass from python

[Michael Barton]

We're doing it from Java in my lab. So it should be possible from Python. I can ask the RA who is doing the Java programming about it if you're interested.

Michael
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C. Michael Barton
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Professor of Anthropology, School of Human Evolution & Social Change
Arizona State University

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On Oct 16, 2010, at 9:00 AM, <grass-dev-request at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:

> Message: 6
> Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 23:07:31 +0100
> From: Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>
> Subject: Re: [GRASS-dev] running grass from python
> To: Massimo Di Stefano <massimodisasha at gmail.com>
> Cc: GRASS developers grass-developers <grass-dev at lists.osgeo.org>
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> Massimo Di Stefano wrote:
> 
>> i'm intersted to know if it is possible to use the grass functionalities directly from python
>> without the needs to run a grass session from bash.
>> 
>> i think the first thisk i have to do is to set my PYTHONPATH to where i have grass-python libs
>> then i have to set the grass environment vars (gisenv?)
>> 
>> have you any hints on how to do it (if possible) ?
> 
> http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/Working_with_GRASS_without_starting_it_explicitly
> 
> The most important environment variables are GISBASE, GISRC, PATH and
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH (or equivalent).
> 
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> Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>