New post
Question
Evgeny Shvarov · Oct 20, 2022

How Can I Call %SYSTEM class methods from Embedded Python?

#Embedded Python #InterSystems IRIS

Hi, devs!

What's the way to call the methods of %SYSTEM class from python?

I tried this way:

print(iris.cls('_SYSTEM.OBJ').Version())


and getting an error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<input>", line 1, in <module>
RuntimeError: iris.class: error finding class

Here is how it works in ObjectScript:

USER>w ##class(%SYSTEM.OBJ).Version()
InterSystems IRIS Version 2022.1.0.209
USER>

Thoughts?

Product version: IRIS 2022.1
0
0 138
Discussion (4)3
Log in or sign up to continue
Jolyon Smith · Oct 20, 2022

You don't need to change the "%" to a "_" in this instance as the cls method is being passed a string literal. This works fine:

print(iris.cls('%SYSTEM.OBJ').Version())
InterSystems IRIS Version 2022.1.0.209
2 0
Evgeny Shvarov · Oct 21, 2022

That’s a bit confusing with “%” method names like %New() and %Save() that are supposed to  called as  _New() and _Save() via python , but makes sense. Thank you @Jolyon Smith! 

0 0
Rich Taylor · Oct 21, 2022

You can also use the iris.system object in python. 

iris.system.Version.GetVersion() returns the full version ($ZV)

IRIS for UNIX (Ubuntu Server LTS for x86-64 Containers) 2022.2 (Build 356U) Thu Oct 6 2022 22:56:28 EDT

There are other methods here to call to such as GetMajor() which would return '2022' and GetPlatform() which returns 'Ubuntu Server LTS for x86-64 Containers'

do dir(iris.system.Version) at the python shell to see them all.

2 0