On Dec 16, 8:41 pm, "W. eWatson" <wolftra...@invalid.com> wrote: > Mensanator wrote: > > On Dec 14, 8:14 pm, "W. eWatson" <wolftra...@invalid.com> wrote: > >> I think Python is capable of executing a compiled C or FORTRAN program, > > > Sure, if it was compiled to an .exe file. > > >> and maybe even getting some parameters passed back. > > > Sure, if the program prints to stdout. > > >> Does anyone have a > >> example of how this might be done? I'm running under Win XP Pro. > > > Here's one. The test program is factor.exe (included in > > the MIRACL library). I recompiled it (factor!.exe) to > > produce consitent output. > > ... > Thanks. OK, I think I can follow that. I want to pass it along to > someone who either missed this possibility in some coding, ignored it, > or felt more comfortable about just writing the whole program from > scratch in c++. His program was originally written in Python, but a new > hardware device (capture card) had no good interface with Python, so he > wrote it in C++, which does. From my knowledge of the Python program > before the entry of c++, it seems he could have farmed out the hardware > interface in much the same way he had done it before with a capture card > well know to him. > > Would the same Python interface work for a compiled C++ program?
If it runs from the command line and writes to stdout, I don't why it wouldn't. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
