Answer by Tim Hallman for Running a Python script from PHP

In my case I needed to create a new folder in the www directory called scripts. Within scripts I added a new file called test.py.

I then used sudo chown www-data:root scripts and sudo chown www-data:root test.py.

Then I went to the new scripts directory and used sudo chmod +x test.py.

My test.py file it looks like this. Note the different Python version:

#!/usr/bin/env python3.5print("Hello World!")

From php I now do this:

$message = exec("/var/www/scripts/test.py 2>&1");print_r($message);

And you should see: Hello World!