Re: Using Inline Python to import Python vars

[Chris Nighswonger]

On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 12:57 PM, Chris Nighswonger <
cnighswon...@foundations.edu> wrote:

> However, this code borks:
>
> use Inline  Python      => 'DATA',
>             DIRECTORY   => '/usr/share/webmin/pykota/.Inline/',
>             NAME        => 'PyKota::Test';
>
> print pykota_version();
> 1;
>
> __DATA__
>
> __Python__
>
> def pykota_version():
>     from pykota.version import __version__
>     return __version__
>
>
> The error is:
>
>   File "<string>", line 3
>     from pykota.version import
>                               ^
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
> Error -- py_eval raised an exception at
> /usr/local/lib/perl/5.14.2/Inline/Python.pm line 177.
> INIT failed--call queue aborted.
>

So I threw together some C to see if the problem was with my Python syntax
in the context of Inline::Python. Below is what I did and it works as
expected.

Any suggestions as to where I'm going wrong here?

Kind Regards,
Chris



#include <Python.h>

main( ) {
    PyObject *pstr, *pmod, *pdict;
    Py_Initialize( );

    pmod  = PyImport_ImportModule("__main__");
    pdict = PyModule_GetDict(pmod);
    pstr  = PyRun_String(
    "def pykota_version():\n"
    "   from pykota.version import __version__\n"
    "   return __version__\n"
    "print pykota_version()\n"
    , Py_file_input, pdict, pdict);

    if (!pstr) {
        PyErr_Print();
        exit (1);
    }

    Py_DECREF(pmod);
    Py_DECREF(pstr);
}