mikelisa...@gmail.com, 17.03.2010 10:08:
Its interesting you've mentioned the hard work involved in this interface (binding to an EXE instead of a DLL). A year or more ago I was looking at interfacing IPMITOOL to python. Do to the problems incurred with swig/python I switched to a running the process through its command-line interface. I always felt the problems in interfacing python to an EXE should be worked on (to minimize them), making the direct use of an EXE API's a routine task. I understand some of the problems using an EXE (not running all of its startup code but enough for its proper operation). Have you found this a recurring question? Thanks.
I think the point here is that executable binaries are not supposed to be used as libraries. Libraries are. That's the difference between a DLL and an executable in the first place. To run an executable, execute it. The subprocess module is the tool of choice here. To use a DLL, link against it.
Stefan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
