I think it's a pity that Wolfram doesn't offer a supported solution for integrating Python and Wolfram code. Certainly with Wolfram's ambition in joining the Data Scientist arena with a Data Science Platform I believe they should offer an integration. As far as I know I believe that Python is nr1 language for Data Scientists.

It looks like the pythonika project is more updated than I had originally thought, but I'm still not sure if it works in 10:

https://code.google.com/p/pythonika/

No, I don't know why it is no longer included. The file was never supported and probably not meant to be a long term solution.

Hi Sean,

What type of license does the Python content inside of the Links directory had in Mathimathica 9.0.1? Is it possible to redistribute it and/or modify and support them as third party in our free software ?

I've also been trying call Python from MMA 10.0.2. I've been trying to use the StartProcess[] command to start a python interpreter and then use WriteBinary and ReadString to the process' stdin, stdout and stderr. However not really with any success. The trivial examples in the documentation with 'cmd' do work but I haven't been able to build on them.

Your success with Pythonika is encouraging, I'll give that a go.