Re: Calling a C program from a Python Script

[Brad Tilley]

Grant Edwards wrote:
Huh?  What do you mean "write a file open"?  You want to read a
C source file and execute the C source?  If you have access to
a C interpreter, I guess you could invoke the interpreter from
python using popen, and feed the C source to it.  Alternatively
you could invoke a compiler and linker from C to generate an
executable and then execute the resulting file.

for root, files, dirs in os.walk(path)
    for f in files:
        try:
            EXECUTE_C_PROGRAM

You're going to have to explain clearly what you mean by
"EXECUTE_C_PROGRAM".  If you want to, you can certainly run a
binary executable that was generated from C source, (e.g. an
ELF file under Linux or whatever a .exe file is under Windows).
Appears I was finger-tied. I meant "a C program that opens and reads 
files" while Python does everything else. How does one integrate C into 
a Python script like that?

So, instead of this:
for root, files, dirs in os.walk(path)
     for f in files:
         try:
             x = file(f, 'rb')
             data = x.read()
             x.close()
this:
for root, files, dirs in os.walk(path)
     for f in files:
         try:
             EXECUTE_C_PROGRAM
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