NPP_SAVE
cd "$(CURRENT_DIRECTORY)"
cmd.exe /c py -u "$(FILE_NAME)"

Thanks again for all the help.

NPP_SAVE
cd "$(CURRENT_DIRECTORY)"
cmd.exe /c py "$(FILE_NAME)"

But print() statements in a Python script don’t show up in the console until after the script exits. This isn’t obvious unless Python opens a GUI window.

Is there a way to have them show in real time as the script is executing?

And I appreciate you being considerate of my feelings in explaining things. I’ll go read up on nppExec now and hopefully get something working.

Thank you.

But the Run dialog only has one line.

In case Alan’s response wasn’t clear enough: if you have the NppExec plugin, you should use that for this task: trying to do it in the Run dialog will be fraught with difficulties.

One of the main points of the NppExec plugin is to make something equivalent to a “batch” file language for N++, with lots of extra features compared to a true .bat file, which goes beyond the simple (and limiting) interface of the Run dialog.

Since you said you have NppExec, then use it. If you don’t actually have it, then install it, because it will make this and other such activities much simpler.

In general: if your Run > Run command involves any && or & or ||, or more than one $(...) variable, switch to NppExec

From this:

I’m using the NppExec plugin to run…

we were led to believe you were using NppExec. Now you’re changing it up:

…But the Run dialog only has one line…

So, Peter’s reply is in the form of an NppExec script, because that’s what you said you were using.

Anyway, if you really want to use the Run dialog, you can put multiple commands in it, like this example:

cmd /c cd /d c:\ && dir && pause

which changes to the root directory on C:, creates a directory listing there, and pauses before closing (so you can see that it worked).

Note that if you do go with the Run dialog approach, you’d have to manually save your file first, as it won’t know what npp_save means.

npp_save
cd “$(CURRENT_DIRECTORY)”
cmd.exe /c python “$(FULL_CURRENT_PATH)”

Okay, I’m confused…

I tried doing what you said… not putting everything on one line. But the Run dialog only has one line. So, I tried just spacing it out. $(CURRENT_DIRECTORY) and $(FILE_NAME) both expanded properly, but I got this error:

What am I missing here? Did I misunderstand you?

you don’t need to do it all in a single cmd call … and the /K option says “keep this cmd shell running”, which means you’ve actually superceded the NppExec console and jumped to a persistent cmd.exe environment, so until you manually type exit from that shell, you’ll be stuck in that cmd.exe shell.

What you really want, if you need to execute one command that doesn’t execute straight from the NppExec script itself, is to use cmd.exe /c, so that cmd will return control to NppExec when it’s done, rather than keeping the cmd shell open.

So what you probably want is something more like

npp_save
cd "$(CURRENT_DIRECTORY)"
cmd.exe /c python "$(FULL_CURRENT_PATH)"

… and since you changed into the file’s directory already, you can actually use "$(FILE_NAME)" instead of "$(FULL_CURRENT_PATH)"