Thanks, I think that might be what I was looking for.
On Apr 13, 7:10 am, lilspikey <lilspi...@gmail.com> wrote: > You could refactor the C code into a library, then call it from > Django. > > There are several ways to interface with a C library in Python, but > you might want to look at ctypes: > > http://docs.python.org/library/ctypes.html > > It means you don't have to write extra C code just to do the > interfacing. > > On Apr 13, 12:14 am, Graeck <gra...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > Just looking for input ... tips, suggestions, etc. > > > We have an old web app written in C using CGIs. All the html is > > generating in the C code using print statements. It's become almost > > impossible to do anything other than make very minor UI changes due to > > the complexity of the code and the tediousness of trying to make UI > > updates via 1000s of print statements. So, we're thinking of moving to > > something like Django. > > > Since Python can call C code (libraries, functions, etc, if I'm > > understanding correctly - I'm pretty new at Python myself - and > > Django), would it be feasible to build the UI templates in Python/ > > Django and still be able to reuse some of our C code - the stuff that > > crunches the huge amounts of data that we have to process? > > > I've started reading:http://docs.python.org/extending/extending.html > > > But any input (esp from people that might have trie such a migration > > before) would be appreciated. > > > Thanks! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
