#Python

New from InterSystems Online Learning: two new exercises that help you get hands-on with InterSystems IRIS to see how easy it is to use to solve your problems!

• Using Multi-Model with Python and Node.js: This exercise takes you through the steps of using the InterSystems IRIS multi-model capability to create a Node.js application that sends JSON data straight to your database instance without any parsing or mapping. 
• Build a Smart Ticketing System: In this exercise, you will build on the Red Light Violation application used in the Interoperability QuickStart.

Hi Community,

Are you a Python developer? If so, you can already start building apps with InterSystems IRIS without learning a new programming language!

👨‍💻Try this exercise to get started quickly with using Python's familiar DB-API interface to connect to an InterSystems IRIS database and run SQL queries.

💬What was your experience with the exercise? Let me know in the comments!

Hi,

I am using embeded python to utilize some pythonic library but i got a problem on my hand.
One of the python function i am using return multiple values

in python you would do something like that :

val1, val2, val3, = function(params)

In COS I got something like that :

lib = ##class(%SYS.Python).Import("lib")
val1 = lib.function(params)

And I don't know how to get the second and third values.
Is there a way to get them?

I am brand new to using AI. I downloaded some medical visit progress notes from my Patient Portal. I extracted text from PDF files. I found a YouTube video that showed how to extract metadata using an OpenAI query / prompt such as this one:

ollama-ai-iris/data/prompts/medical_progress_notes_prompt.txt at main · oliverwilms/ollama-ai-iris
 

I combined @Rodolfo Pscheidt Jr https://github.com/RodolfoPscheidtJr/ollama-ai-iris with some files from @Guillaume Rongier https://openexchange.intersystems.com/package/iris-rag-demo.

I attempted to run

python3 query_data.

Hi Community!

This week is a voting week for the InterSystems IRIS Native API Programming Contest! We have 8 applications — so you have a set of applications to choose from!

How to vote? This is easy: you will have one vote, and your vote goes either in Experts Nomination or in Community Nomination.

We are happy to present the bonuses page for the applications submitted to the InterSystems .Net, Java, Python, and JavaScript Contest!

See the results below.

Hi contestants!

Here are the results of the bonus collections the applications of the Python Contest accomplished.

Here are the projects that scored it:

Are you using Jupyter Notebooks with IRIS? Are you using the vscode-iris-jupyter-server VS Code extension for your notebooking? If so, please let me know either via direct message or with a comment on this post. I'd like to hear more about how our customers are working with tool specifically, and with data science more generally.

Thanks!

Hi,

Do you have any experience in inserting a panda dataframe into SQL IRIS Table? The dataframe.to_sql method uses sqlalchemy and it seems no dialect is available for IRIS.

thanks, Blaise

I'm trying to deploy a python/flask application to an Iris4Health container (2025.1) but running into some issues with packages and where they should be installed. 

First one if the flask packages themselves. I tried to installed the flask packages into the python external language server virtual environment, but even doing this when configuring the WSGI application in the web application section, it would complain about not having a WSGI framework. Once I created a custom container and added the flask package at the OS level, I was able to configure the web application without it complaining.

Hey Community,

Enjoy the new video on InterSystems Developers YouTube:

⏯ A Day in the Life of a Developer - Data Platforms Roundup @ Ready 2025

Hello,

I'm trying to set Caché-Python Binding on Mac, but there is a problem.

I performed installation and configuration of Caché-Python binding module based on the manual (URL)
including setting of PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH in "bash_profile", 
and they seems to be done successfully (there was no error in the process).

However, when I execute test python file (test.py), it failed with error massage as below.
-----------------------Error Massage----------------------
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "test.py", line 2, in <module>
    import intersys.pythonbind3
  File "/$USER$/.

I'm testing with an application I'm writing in python. But I noticed that the pythonbind3 library will only work on the same machine where the cache is running. Is there really such a dependency?

I'm trying to run the examples that are in the / dev / python / samples3 folder, but they only work if I set "LD_LIBRARY_PATH" with the path to the cache installation folder.

But... I have this error when LD_LIBRARY_PATH is empty:

[root@cache2018 samples3]# python CPTest2.py -user _SYSTEM -password xxxxxx Traceback (most recent call last): File "CPTest2.

I have a python script that is pulling the cache instance key expiration date ( KeyExpirationDate() ) which comes back as an integer. With the queryscript function - $ZDATE(73284) I can derive the actual expiration date. Is there a manner or method of creating an equivalent Python script that will convert the integer return by the KeyExpirationDate()  method into a date string?

Hello everybody, 

I've been experimenting with Embedded Python and have been following the steps outlined in this documentation: https://docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cl…

I'm trying to convert a python dictionary into an objectscript array but there is an issue with the 'arrayref' function, that is not working as in the linked example.

This is a snapshoot of my IRIS terminal: 

USER>do ##class(%SYS.Python).Shell()

Python 3.10.12 (main, Nov 20 2023, 15:14:05) [GCC 11.4.

If anyone has experience debugging Embedded Python or has insight into why an ObjectScript method when called from a Python method would not work but would work when called directly via ObjectScript or in a Python shell, your help would be appreciated! 

We have an ObjectScript ClassMethod called GetTemplateString() which takes in a templateName of String type and uses the template name to get the template object, access the Code, and read the code into a templateString. The string version of the Code is returned.

My usecase is sorting and removing duplicates and getting count from a file that has json messages as a individual rows.

I am currently planning to use pandas for this purpose as its really fast.

It would be convenient to be able to fetch the whole query result in one operation instead of looping through every row. A fetch_all() method or something similar would provide this functionality I guess. Is there a reason why this is not implemented?

Hi folks!

Consider I need to call a python function which name contains "_" symbol (which is quite often in Python). How it could be called from ObjectScript?

E.g. here is the code:

Set sm = ##class(%SYS.Python).Import("sample")

write sm.helloworld() ; function without _
white sm.hello_world() ; function with _ - won't compile.

Thanks in advance!

Could you please help anyone how to import Python package in %SYSTEM package and to use python methods to write in object script class?

I used the following link to install the Python but I can't see the Python package in %SYSTEM package and my program throwing the Class Does not exist error?

https://docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cl…

Please help on this..

Hello Team,

I got xDBC protocol is not compatible while executing python script. How to fix this error

C:\Users\ak\Desktop\lpyth\iris>C:/Users/ak/AppData/Local/Programs/Python/Python312/python.exe c:/Users/ak/Desktop/lpyth/iris/irisconn.py
An error occurred: connection failed: IRIS xDBC protocol is not compatible

py -m pip list
Package            Version
------------------ ---------
intersystems-iris  3.9.2

import intersystems_iris as iris
args = {'hostname':'127.0.0.1', 'port':1972,'namespace':'LEARNING', 'username':'_SYSTEM', 'password':'SYS'}
try:
    conn = iris.

 Hi Community:

Just want to let you know that we have created a special landing page with select Focus Sessions that you can replay.

>Link to Landing Page

>Link to Focus Sessions on Embedded Python

Enjoy!

Jacquie

I'm after some more in-depth information about how the embedded python is implemented with regards to how it works when a python method is called from a CSP page. Will it run in the same Windows process? Will there be any issues with multitasking (considering python doesn't seem very good at this)?

Also, is there a performance penalty to pay for running embedded python vs "using IRIS APIs from Python". 

Another question is what python interpreter the embedded python is using? Is it an Intersystems one or the regular c.python? Version?

Excited to go Python!

It is possible to update Cache object property from Python using the following Python code, with import of intersys.pythonbind3:

my_object.set("my_property",["A","B","C"])

However, I am unable to save 2D %List with 2D Python array like the following:

my_object.set("my_property",[["A","B","C"],["1","2","3"]])

I am not sure whether this is Python-Cache bind flaw or design issue. Is there any alternative/ workaround to do the same for above?

Hi Developers!

This is the second post on the resources for Developers. This part is about Open Exchange

Using Open Exchange to Learn InterSystems

InterSystems Open Exchange is a applications gallery of tools, connectors, and libraries which InterSystems Developers submit to share the experience, approaches and do business. All the applications are either built with InterSystems data platforms or are intended to use for development with InterSystems data platforms.

If you are a beginner developer you can take a look at applications in Technology Example category. All the applications in this category come with open source code repositories, so you are able to run the samples and examples in a docker container with IRIS on your laptop or in the cloud IRIS sandbox. Examples:

I have table

CREATE TABLE nodes (
        name VARCHAR(50) NOT NULL, 
        parent VARCHAR(50), 
        PRIMARY KEY (name), 
        FOREIGN KEY(parent) REFERENCES nodes (name) ON UPDATE cascade
);

I put some data

INSERT INTO nodes (name, parent) VALUES ('n1', NULL);
INSERT INTO nodes (name, parent) VALUES ('n11', 'n1');
INSERT INTO nodes (name, parent) VALUES ('n12', 'n1');
INSERT INTO nodes (name, parent) VALUES ('n13', 'n1');

Let's delete all

DELETE FROM nodes;

Nope, no way.

SQL Error [124] [S1000]: [SQLCODE: <-124>:<FOREIGN KEY constraint failed referential check upon DELETE of row in referenced table>]
[Location: <ServerLoop>]
[%msg: <At least 1 Row exists in table 'SQLUser.nodes' which references key 'NODESPKey2' - Foreign Key Constraint 'NODESFKey3', Field(s) 'parent' failed on referential action of NO ACTION>]

Visual Studio Code releases new updates every month with new features and bug fixes, and the February 2024 release is now available. 

Version 1.87 includes: 

• Voice dictation in editor - Use your voice to dictate directly in the editor.
• Multi-cursor inline suggestions - Review and accept inline suggestions for multiple cursors.
• Copilot-powered rename suggestions - Get rename suggestions for symbols from Copilot.
• Side-by-side preview refactoring - Preview refactorings across files with multi diff editor.
• Smarter Python imports - Improvements for adding missing Python imports.

Hence the question: is there a way to do that?
The goal is to get data (from half a thousand to 3-4 thousands lines) from DB, calculate standart deviation  then use it as logical condition in analyzer. 
For example IF std > custom_value = show_the_result ELSE null
There is a STDDEV(MDX) method  used in Analyzer but it is a measure and it can not be used as logical condition (correct me if i am wrong)

And there is a Embedded Python with numpy, but logic behind STDDEV(MDX) and numpy.

I'm exploring this right now: given a bunch of types defined as Pydantic models, how can I come up with an equivalent %RegisteredObject/%SerialObject and convert to/from (e.g., to support persistence and match validation as much as possible)?

People who know Python better than I do (e.g., your average undergraduate from this decade): is this a stupid idea or a cool idea? Has anyone else done this before?

Hey guys,
I need your help.
I am writing a code in Python and I want to create a database and some properties and then to send json files (data) to this database. (I use client-server-model for loading the data into IRIS)
I use curl methods and convert it in Python code with:

curl.trillworks.com/#python

My code so far:
 

url = "http://127.0.0.1:52773/api/docdb/v1/NamespaceName/db/DBName"
url2 = "http://127.0.0.1:52773/api/docdb/v1/NamespaceName/doc/DBName/"


header = {
        'Content-Type': 'application/json',
    }
    
response = requests.get(url, headers=header)
print(response.