Hi Duncan's example worked to a point. The line PyRun_String( "print x", Py_file_input, dict, dict); print out the contents of x, but I don't want to print x out. I want to be able to grab whateven the variable x contains so that I can pass it on for further processing by the C++ application.
BTW this is only a test case. The real scripts are much bigger. I must say the documentation is not of much help and there are no books or articles covering embedding Python in any detail. What there is is very much out of date. -- Best Regards John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list