W. eWatson 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?
I am working on a Python UI (PyQt4) to a Fortran program. The approach I've
taken is to build the Fortran code as a DLL (or .so). Python can load the
library and call a procedure that initiates execution. I'm using sockets to
pass data of different types back to the Python program. This is a work in
progress, and I'm learning Python as we go.
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