Michael Terry wrote: > Suppose you had a Cocoa program that executed Python scripts > periodically. If global variables were set, they'd retain their values > between script runs. What would be the best approach to make this > happen? > > Call the C APIs? If so, do I just need to initialize a Python > interpreter when the program starts and not finalize it until the > program closes--or will it be more complicated than that?
Yep, just call Py_Initialize once. In fact, it's not a good idea to call Py_Initialize and Py_Finalize multiple times because they cause a memory leak of about 10K each time. In our app we don't even bother calling Py_Finalize at the end because it causes a slight but annoying delay. If you want to see the way we do things then go to https://sourceforge.net/projects/golly/ and either browse CVS or download the source code and look at wxpython.cpp. Andrew _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
