Running powershell script within python script, how to make python print the powershell output while it is running

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  1. Make sure you can run powershell scripts (it is disabled by default). Likely you have already done this. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee176949.aspx

    Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned

  2. Run this python script on your powershell script helloworld.py:

    # -*- coding: iso-8859-1 -*-
import subprocess, sys

p = subprocess.Popen(["powershell.exe", 
              "C:\\Users\\USER\\Desktop\\helloworld.ps1"], 
              stdout=sys.stdout)
p.communicate()

This code is based on python3.4 (or any 3.x series interpreter), though it should work on python2.x series as well.

C:\Users\MacEwin\Desktop>python helloworld.py
Hello World

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