# Python and py2app help

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**Created:** [December 8, 2023, 10:48am UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/python-and-py2app-help/78443 "2023-12-08T10:48:25Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 8, 2023, 6:29pm UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/python-and-py2app-help/78443/2 "2023-12-08T18:29:48Z")

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I do not know that this will help you, but I am throwing it out there on the off chance it might. Several years ago, I wrote various Xojo programs that called Python scripts. It worked beautifully. This is basically how I did it:

```auto
Const PATH_PYTHON3 = "/Users/koala/anaconda3/bin/python"
// get the path to the script that you want to run and place it in thePathname
Var thePathname As String 

Var pythonShell As New Shell
pythonShell.Mode = MODE_SYNCHRONOUS // the default anyway
pythonShell.Execute(PATH_PYTHON3, thePathname)

Var theAnswer As String
theAnswer = pythonShell.Result // Contains the contents of the output buffer

```

1. PATH\_PYTHON3 is just the path to where Python lives on your particular machine
2. thePathname is just the full path to the Python script you want to run

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You can pass string arguments to the Python script as in the below

```auto
Const SP As String = " "
Var argument1, argument2 As String
argument1 = "whatever"
argument2 = "somethingelse"
pythonShell.Execute(PATH_PYTHON3, thePathname + SP + argument1 + SP + argument2)

```

Now my knowledge about all this is very rusty so I defer to others who might chime in. I am not confident that I actually understand your question since I do not know what _py2app_ is. 🥴

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