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Hi, I'm trying to use power automate to run cmd. This cmd is intended to run a .py . After running it, a letter should be returned(eg: abcd). Is there a way for power automate to read this return and set as a variale? Thanks

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Agnius Bartninkas Most Valuable Professional on at

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Have you tried using the Read from CMD session action? It generates a variable called %CmdOutput% that contains whatever you read from the session.
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Yes, i've tried before, and here is the text i got. It do not return the output from the .py file. But actually, i've added print() at the end of the .py.

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.22621.1848]
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C:\Users\xxxxxxx\xxxx>python 1.py

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I guess your Python script does not actually return anything to the CMD session.
Why don't you use the Run Python script action instead to run your Python script? Do you need it stored in a .py file?
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Sorry for that. I'm not famaliar with runing python script. becuase when i trying to use it. It seems the power automate desktop fail to apply the python package. Really appreciate it if some reading materials related to this topic can be recommended. Thanks a lot!

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PAD can run Python 2 scripts, so you would need to adapt your script accordingly if you created it with Python 3.
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