In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have some c++ binaries that do rather intense number computations. > They do it well and rather quickly compared to other languages (not just > Python). ... > > However, other components can be written in a more user friendly, more > easily maintained language. We've chosen Python for this. The main > question now is how to pass the computationally heavy info to c++ from > within Pyhton. os.system is not ideal. Just wondering how other folks do > this? I have source to some of the c++ code, but some of it is in binary > from only. It can take stdin or arguments. You say you have "binary only", but I hope you have the header files as well. If so I would try SWIG first since it is mature and handles C++ quite well. If you don't have headers then I have no idea if it's even possible. (For plain C I would start with ctypes, but that doesn't cover this case. There are many other options including boost and Pyrex, but I've not used those.) -- Russell -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
