Hello all,

I’ve recently been playing around with both Erlang and Elixir and wished to create a few apps for my Github with them, both of which required a small UI. For the Erlang project I managed to get a Java Swing program to call functions running on an Erlang server without any issues. For the Elixir project I’d like to use Python.

I came across ‘pyrlang’ and was able to run through a couple of examples of interacting with an Erlang server through Python, but I’m not finding much in the way of information regarding calling Elixir.

If anyone has any experience with pyrlang, can you tell me what I’d need to do to pass a couple of variables to an Elixir function, and retrieve the result?

# To start server: werl -name erl@127.0.0.1 -setcookie COOKIE -env ERL_LIBS "C:\Program Files (x86)\Elixir\lib" -user Elixir.IEx.CLI -extra --no-halt
# To compile: c("library.ex")
# To test: Lib.add_numbers(3, 4)

defmodule Lib do
    def add_numbers(a, b) do
        a + b
    end
end