Re: What was that web interaction library called again?
Harald Korneliussen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I remember I came across a python library that made it radically
> simple to interact with web sites, connecting to gmail and logging in
> with four or five lines, for example. I thought, "that's interesting,
> I must look into it sometime".
I was looking for something like this recently too. I don't believe
there is anything in the Python world quite as staggeringly
well-designed as the SimpleBrowser component nested within the
SimpleTest framework for PHP. If there is, I would like to know.
http://simpletest.sourceforge.net/en/web_tester_documentation.html
Here is a code snippet:
class TestOfLastcraft extends WebTestCase {
...
function testContact() {
$this->get('http://www.lastcraft.com/');
$this->clickLink('About');
$this->assertTitle(new PatternExpectation('/About Last Craft/'));
}
}
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subprocess.Popen output to file?
Hi all I am trying to set up a python script to manage backups of a mysql database the 'right way' using pipes. I want to send the output of the 'mysqldump' command to a file. Using a normal shell script this would be easy using a ">" operator. What is the efficient and best way to do this using pure python, bearing in mind that it will be too much data to keep in memory? I presume using the subprocess module, but how to get the output to a file? It's not really documented, AFAICS. Cheers JP -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: How to receive a FILE* from Python under MinGW?
On Mar 24, 5:37 am, "Gabriel Genellina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > En Fri, 23 Mar 2007 16:34:22 -0300, Gabriel Genellina > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > > >> What about calling mscvrt_get_osfhandle from inside the SWIG wrapper? > >> I tried this but it seemed that the function was not exported to the > >> DLL. > > > The idea is to separate both worlds - _get_osfhandle must be called from > > the C runtime used by Python, not the one linked to your extension. > > Ah, but you could import the msvcrt module and get it from there. *ONLY* > get_osfhandle. The other function, open_osfhandle, must be from the > runtime used by your extension. > > -- > Gabriel Genellina Yes, that was what I was hoping might be possible. Have not had any luck with that yet though. Cheers JP -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: How to receive a FILE* from Python under MinGW?
On Mar 23, 7:48 pm, "Gabriel Genellina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > And replace all places where a Python file goes into a C extension, with > exportable_file(f) What about calling mscvrt_get_osfhandle from inside the SWIG wrapper? I tried this but it seemed that the function was not exported to the DLL. Cheers JP -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: How to receive a FILE* from Python under MinGW?
On Mar 23, 3:33 pm, "Gabriel Genellina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > import msvcrt > fh = msvcrt.get_osfhandle(f.fileno()) .. > example.filetest(fh) > f.close() Cool, that looks great, Gabriel. But is there any way I can hide the get_osfhandle call inside my Python module? That way I wouldn't need to request end users to make contorted 'if platform.system()=="Windows"' calls everywhere. Maybe this *is* workable, after all :-) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: How to receive a FILE* from Python under MinGW?
On Mar 23, 10:59 am, Giovanni Bajo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 22/03/2007 15.34, John Pye wrote: > > > I downloaded your package and installed it in c:/mingw1. It complained > > that it could not detect Python, although I have Python 2.4 installed > > on my system (did you check HKCU as well as HKLM, perhaps?) > > E you're totally right! I'll have that fixed! Great. I'll be looking out for a bugfix release very shortly then ;-) > > > I note that the gccmrt utility does not work from MSYS. You will need > > to provide a shell-script equivalent version, in order for that to be > > useful for MSYS users. So I opened a cmd prompt and ran the command, > > then restarted my MSYS session. > > Yes, I don't use MSYS. I'll attempt something... any idea how to ship both > versions and still having the right one picked up depending on which shell > you're using? Maybe it's just a matter of extensions? Yes, just add a file 'gccmrt' with no extension, and put '#!/bin/sh' in the first line, I'd say. And then whatever the script actually needs to do -- hopefully it's pretty simple. If you need to be tweaking the registry perhaps it would be better to just write a little binary .exe that can be used both my cmd and sh users. > > > There is also a need to be able to > > > query the *current state* of the gccmrt option. > > Right, I'll add that. Great, that would be a help. > > > Next I built my code. It all compiled OK, all the way through to my > > NSIS bundle. So that was nice. It includes gfortran, flex, bison, SWIG/ > > Python and Tcl/Tk linkage: a bit of a coup. > > > BUT when I try to run my program, I get a windows error msgbox, > > "python.exe - Entry Point Not Found: The procedure entry point _ctype > > could not be located in the dynamic link library msvcr71.dll". > > In msvcrt71.dll, there is no _ctype (see declaration at line 111 of > include\ctype.h). There is only _pctype. What if you comment the declaration > at line 111? I wonder what it's bringing in _ctype. > > Anyway, it looks like mingw-runtime does not support this _ctype change > between mscvrt.dll and msvcr71.dll. These changes should probably be > represented in the forms of #ifs checking __MSVCRT_VERSION__. I'm not even > sure that __MSVCRT_VERSION__ is being set correctly.. that is something gccmrt > should eventually take care of, but for this specific _ctype problem you > probably need to submit a patch to mingw-runtime. > > I can guide you through it though... I don't have much time in these days > though. Sorry, I'm not clear on this and will need a bit more help. I'm not even sure where this _ctype dependency could be coming from -- do you have any ideas? Are you saying that I can't make your GCC tools work until the MinGW runtime is patched? Cheers JP -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: How to receive a FILE* from Python under MinGW?
On Mar 22, 7:23 pm, Giovanni Bajo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I personally don't use MSYS so I don't know exactly. I use SCons too, and I > simply run it from the normal command prompt. > > I *believe* it's sufficient to unpack MSYS somewhere (you can either unpack it > *over* the directory where you installed my GCC package, or somewhere else, I > believe it works either way); since the GCC binaries are added to the system > PATH by the installer, you should able to run it anyway. You can try by simply > invoking "gcc -v" at the MSYS prompt and see if it's picking up the right > version of GCC. > > I would appreciate if you give some feedback about this. I would like to > incorporate your findings on the webpage. Hi Giovanni I downloaded your package and installed it in c:/mingw1. It complained that it could not detect Python, although I have Python 2.4 installed on my system (did you check HKCU as well as HKLM, perhaps?) I note that the gccmrt utility does not work from MSYS. You will need to provide a shell-script equivalent version, in order for that to be useful for MSYS users. So I opened a cmd prompt and ran the command, then restarted my MSYS session. There is also a need to be able to query the *current state* of the gccmrt option. Next I built my code. It all compiled OK, all the way through to my NSIS bundle. So that was nice. It includes gfortran, flex, bison, SWIG/ Python and Tcl/Tk linkage: a bit of a coup. BUT when I try to run my program, I get a windows error msgbox, "python.exe - Entry Point Not Found: The procedure entry point _ctype could not be located in the dynamic link library msvcr71.dll". I don't know what the cause of that missing symbol could be, unless it has something to do with the fact that I am linking with -lgfortran. As well as the python module that fails to load (above) I also have a Tcl/Tk based executable which crashes on launch. Also seems to be something with msvcr71, but I can't tell for sure. Have you got any ideas? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: How to receive a FILE* from Python under MinGW?
On Mar 22, 10:55 am, Giovanni Bajo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I suggest people to try my GCC 4.1.2 binary installer for Windows which fully > integrates with Python and has scripts in place to solve the MSVCR71.DLL > problem. It was announced on this very list a few days ago: > > http://www.develer.com/oss/GccWinBinaries Hi Giovanni, Thanks very much for that suggestion. It looks like you have done some good work on addressing this problem. I wonder if you might be able to expand on what those 'serious problems' with GCC 4.x on the Windows platform are? Also, can you comment on how one might use your compiler bundle with MSYS? In particular, I like to run SCons from an MSYS prompt. Assuming I don't want to kill my old MinGW and Cygwin installations, how do you recommend that one proceeds to set up a working GCC 4 environment on Windows? (I haven't downloaded it just yet; I'm on Linux today!) Cheers JP -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: splitting perl-style find/replace regexp using python
Thanks all for your suggestions on this. The 'splitter' idea was particularly good, not something I'd thought of. Sorry for my late reply. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: How to receive a FILE* from Python under MinGW?
Gabriel, if you think you can make an example that works, that would be great. I'm afraid I feel a bit out of my depth and don't have much confidence in this idea. JP -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: How to receive a FILE* from Python under MinGW?
On Mar 21, 4:49 pm, "Carl Douglas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1) Rebuild Python with a different compiler/linker kit so it links to > the same CRT as my project, in your case find a mingw built Python.dll > > 2) Rebuild [with MSVC] OK, so let's say that I must support EXISTING installations of Python 2.4 on computers I have no control over. And let's say that I detest MSVC and want to push on with MinGW at all costs. What then? I read something about being using '-lmsvcrt71' or '-lmsvcrt' with GCC...? JP -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: How to receive a FILE* from Python under MinGW?
On Mar 21, 4:48 pm, "John Pye" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I am trying the following... any thoughts?
>
> %typemap(in) FILE * {
> if (!PyFile_Check($input)) {
> PyErr_SetString(PyExc_TypeError, "Need a file!");
> return NULL;
> }
> %#ifdef __MINGW32__
> PyFileObject *fo = (PyFileObject *)$input;
> $1 = fdopen(_fileno(fo->f_fp),PyString_AsString(fo->f_mode));
>
> fprintf(stderr,"FDOPEN(%d,\"%s\")\n",fo->f_fp,PyString_AsString(fo->f_mode));
>
> %#else
> $1 = PyFile_AsFile($input);
> %#endif
>
> }
Ok, so this didn't work. 'fdopen' returned NULL. I guess that nails
the coffin for the fileno() approach?
Cheers
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Re: How to receive a FILE* from Python under MinGW?
On Mar 21, 4:04 pm, Ross Ridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Gabriel Genellina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >You can get the file descriptor from the Python file object using its
> >fileno() method. The file descriptor lives at the OS level, so it's safe
> >to pass around.
>
> Not under Windows. Windows doesn't have Unix-like descriptors, so the
> C runtime emulates them.
I am trying the following... any thoughts?
%typemap(in) FILE * {
if (!PyFile_Check($input)) {
PyErr_SetString(PyExc_TypeError, "Need a file!");
return NULL;
}
%#ifdef __MINGW32__
PyFileObject *fo = (PyFileObject *)$input;
$1 = fdopen(_fileno(fo->f_fp),PyString_AsString(fo->f_mode));
fprintf(stderr,"FDOPEN(%d,\"%s\")\n",fo->f_fp,PyString_AsString(fo-
>f_mode));
%#else
$1 = PyFile_AsFile($input);
%#endif
}
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Re: How to receive a FILE* from Python under MinGW?
On Mar 21, 3:15 pm, "Gabriel Genellina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> En Wed, 21 Mar 2007 00:46:03 -0300, John Pye
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió:
>
> > This is not an option for me, as I want to pass the
> > FILE* from Python and all the way into into a existing shared-library
> > code. I can't change the latter; it must work ok with standard fprintf
> > (etc) functions.
>
> You can get the file descriptor from the Python file object using its
> fileno() method. The file descriptor lives at the OS level, so it's safe
> to pass around. You can regenerate a new FILE struct (using the other
> runtime library) with fdopen.
>
> --
> Gabriel Genellina
Hmm. Reading this again I think I understand properly now. The
'fileno' is really *not* the same thing as the FILE* pointer cast to
an integer. It is a lower-level structure.
The question is now, if I don't want to modify my *python* code, how
do I get at the 'fileno' property of my PyFileObject?
Also, are there consequences for using this approach of regenerating
the FILE struct? For example if I have the following:
F = os.tmpfile()
F.write("some data")
F.seek(0)
myswigmodule.dosomething(F)
F.seek(0)
S = F.read()
print S
I don't know enough about this low-level file handling to really
understand the implications of what you are proposing -- perhaps you
could explain a little?
Cheers
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Re: How to receive a FILE* from Python under MinGW?
On Mar 21, 3:15 pm, "Gabriel Genellina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > En Wed, 21 Mar 2007 00:46:03 -0300, John Pye > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > > > This is not an option for me, as I want to pass the > > FILE* from Python and all the way into into a existing shared-library > > code. I can't change the latter; it must work ok with standard fprintf > > (etc) functions. > > You can get the file descriptor from the Python file object using its > fileno() method. The file descriptor lives at the OS level, so it's safe > to pass around. You can regenerate a new FILE struct (using the other > runtime library) with fdopen. > > -- > Gabriel Genellina Hi Gabriel Are you sure about this? My understanding is that 'fileno' is just a FILE* cast to an integer. So it's a pointer to something (check out stdio.h to see what it points to). Problem is (AFAICT) that Python 2.4 uses a different version of the C runtime DLL (MSVCRT*.DLL) to that which MinGW links against. And it turns out that the different C runtime libraries have incompatible implementations of the FILE struct. And therefore if you try to pass a FILE* (fileno?) from Python to MinGW you will get a segfault. If there is more to your suggestion that I'm not seeing, please clarify. Have you tried this with MinGW actually? Cheers JP -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: [Swig-user] How to receive a FILE* from Python under MinGW?
Hi Carl
I'm not sure that your snippet really solves my problem. As far as I can
see from, you're just passing a filename instead of a file pointer,
right? And then you're using the Python fopen-equivalent
(PyFile_FromString) This is not an option for me, as I want to pass the
FILE* from Python and all the way into into a existing shared-library
code. I can't change the latter; it must work ok with standard fprintf
(etc) functions.
If I've missed something, perhaps you could clarify a little bit more on
how it is that you're overcoming the FILE* problem?
Cheers
JP
See also
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_frm/thread/7b69b34240169f7e/ac8fae1b61832f51?lnk=st&q=file+mingw+python&rnum=30#ac8fae1b61832f51
And
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2007-March/430695.html
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_frm/thread/6d7569e7fd996daf/
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_frm/thread/17558adbc053f26d/
Carl Douglas wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> I had exactly this problem... use the PyFile_AsFile function. Below
> is a code snippet from my project:
>
> // Thank you: http://www.ragestorm.net/tutorial?id=21#8
> PyObject* PyFileObject = PyFile_FromString(ofn.lpstrFile, "r");
>
> if (PyFileObject == NULL)
> {
> PyErr_Print();
> PyErr_Clear();
> return false;
> }
>
> // Because microsoft C runtimes are not binary compatible, we
> can't
> // just call fopen to get a FILE * and pass that FILE * to
> another application
> // or library (Python25.dll in this case) that uses a
> different version
> // of the C runtime that this DLL uses. Using PyFile_AsFile is a
> work-around...
>
> if (PyRun_SimpleFile(PyFile_AsFile(PyFileObject),
> ofn.lpstrFile) == -1)
> {
> PyErr_Print();
> PyErr_Clear();
> }
>
> Py_DECREF(PyFileObject);
>
> For the full source of my SWIG/Python project, poke around here:
>
> http://l3dtpython.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/cdPython/
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> On 3/21/07, John Pye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Hi all
>>
>> There is fairly well-known problem on MinGW with passing FILE pointers
>> to Python. The problem seems to be that Python depends on a different
>> version of msvcrt*.dll to that which MinGW depends on, and these
>> different C runtimes provide different FILE implementations.
>>
>> The upshot of that seems to be that file objects created in Python via
>> the 'file(...)' command can't safely be used in a SWIG module. It can be
>> done perfectly (using SWIG typemap and PyFile_AsFile) on Linux but it
>> fails with a segfault on Windows.
>>
>> What is the best possible workaround for this? Surely someone must have
>> found a satisfactory solution to this problem?
>>
>> Cheeers
>> JP
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Re: python/C++ wrapper
Check out this example from NumPy. This would be the way sanctioned by the scipy community, as you benefit from a large library of matrix routines that you can use to prepare/postprocess the data. http://www.scipy.org/Cookbook/SWIG_and_NumPy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Passing a FILE* from Python into a MinGW/SWIG module
Hi all
I understand that I can't hope to pass a FILE* from the Windows
version of Python into a SWIG module that I've built using MinGW gcc/g+
+, because apparently the FILE* structure are different and
incompatible.
Is there an official workaround for this? Presumably I need to
implement a mingw-compatible version of all the 'file' class in
Python, eg
import mingw
import myswigmodule
F1 = mingw.file("newfile.txt","rw")
F1.write("somestuff")
F1.seek(0)
F2 = mingw.tmpfile()
myswigmodule.dosomething(F1,F2)
F2.seek(0)
print F2.read()
Has anyone done this? Is there a better way that doesn't require users
of my module to adapt? Do I have to use the dreaded MSVS to compile my
SWIG module?
Cheers
JP
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splitting perl-style find/replace regexp using python
Hi all
I have a file with a bunch of perl regular expressions like so:
/(^|[\s\(])\*([^ ].*?[^ ])\*([\s\)\.\,\:\;\!\?]|$)/$1'''$2'''$3/ #
bold
/(^|[\s\(])\_\_([^ ].*?[^ ])\_\_([\s\)\.\,\:\;\!\?]|$)/$1''$2<\/
b>''$3/ # italic bold
/(^|[\s\(])\_([^ ].*?[^ ])\_([\s\)\.\,\:\;\!\?]|$)/$1''$2''$3/ #
italic
These are all find/replace expressions delimited as '/search/replace/
# comment' where 'search' is the regular expression we're searching
for and 'replace' is the replacement expression.
Is there an easy and general way that I can split these perl-style
find-and-replace expressions into something I can use with Python, eg
re.sub('search','replace',str) ?
I though generally it would be good enough to split on '/' but as you
see the <\/b> messes that up. I really don't want to learn perl
here :-)
Cheers
JP
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Re: 'import dl' on AMD64 platform
On Feb 19, 6:30 am, Nick Craig-Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Pye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > application from running on the Debian Etch AMD64 platform. > > It seems that the 'dl' module is not available on that platform. The > > only reason I need the 'dl' module, however, is for the values of > > RTLD_LAZY etc, which I use with sys.setdlopenflags() in order to make > > my imported SWIG module share its symbols correctly with more deeply- > > nested plugin modiles in my C-code layer. > > > I wonder if there is a workaround for this -- perhaps another way to > > access the values of those RTLD flags? > > Read stuff out of /usr/include/bits/dlfcn.h ? > > It seems to be a constant 1 anyway > > #define RTLD_LAZY 0x1 > > You could try compiling the dl module by hand. Well yes, and that's the workaround I came up with: for systems that don't provide the 'dl' module, I just default to the values I found on my linux (ubuntu) system. This is a nasty hack however. I wonder if anyone could say why the Debian people left out this important module from their AMD64 platform? Cheers JP -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
'import dl' on AMD64 platform
Hi all I have a tricky situation that's preventing my Python/SWIG/C application from running on the Debian Etch AMD64 platform. It seems that the 'dl' module is not available on that platform. The only reason I need the 'dl' module, however, is for the values of RTLD_LAZY etc, which I use with sys.setdlopenflags() in order to make my imported SWIG module share its symbols correctly with more deeply- nested plugin modiles in my C-code layer. I wonder if there is a workaround for this -- perhaps another way to access the values of those RTLD flags? Cheers JP -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Catching floating point errors from linked C code
Hi John I think you're right, and I need to place FPE 'brackets' around my code. The thing that was confusing me was that python has division by zero exceptions (for which I assumed fenv.h was being used), but when from python I reach down into my SWIG code and do a 1/0, no SIGFPE is thrown. I will experiment with the _controlfp stuff (and linux equivs) and see how it goes. Thanks for your help. Cheers JP On Jan 25, 5:12 pm, John Nagle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Pye wrote: > > Hi John, > > > On Jan 25, 3:43 pm, John Nagle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>Python is probably running with floating point exceptions disabled, > >>but you can enable them in your C code, and restoring the floating > >>point mode when you leave, if you want. This is probably > >>only worth doing under a debugger, because otherwise you just end > >>up with an aborted instance of Python. > > > So as far as you know, Python doesn't switch stuff like > > feenableexcept(FE_EXCEPT_ALL)? Does Python use the > > internally, or are all its FPEs detected by explicit checks beforehand? > > I have no idea what state Python leaves the FPU in, but whatever > the state is, you can read it, set your own state, and restore > the previous state before returning to Python. > > The last time I had to do this, I used > > unsigned int oldstate = // make almost all FPU errors fatal > _controlfp ((~_EM_INVALID) & _CW_DEFAULT, _MCW_EM); > ... > _controlfp(oldstate); // restore old state > > on Windows 2000. > > John Nagle -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Catching floating point errors from linked C code
Hi John, On Jan 25, 3:43 pm, John Nagle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Python is probably running with floating point exceptions disabled, > but you can enable them in your C code, and restoring the floating > point mode when you leave, if you want. This is probably > only worth doing under a debugger, because otherwise you just end > up with an aborted instance of Python. So as far as you know, Python doesn't switch stuff like feenableexcept(FE_EXCEPT_ALL)? Does Python use the internally, or are all its FPEs detected by explicit checks beforehand? If writing a python module with SWIG, and the module uses Python callbacks, do I need to restore the signal handlers before running the callback, or python do that itself? (These might be questions better asked on the SWIG list I guess) Cheers JP -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Catching floating point errors from linked C code
Hi all I have some C code that is giving me some 'nan' values in some calculations. The C code is wrapped using SWIG to give me a Python module that I am then exercising through a unittest suite. It seems that I should expect the C code to throw floating point exceptions (SIGFPE) and either the whole thing to abort, or for Python to catch the errors and report them. Instead I'm getting neither. I want to be able to track down the exact location of problems in my C code. Is there something that Python does to turn on/off the catching of divide-by-zero errors, eg by manipulating signal handlers and/or settings? Cheers JP -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Overloading assignment operator
Hi thre, On Jan 24, 5:24 am, Achim Domma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want to use Python to script some formulas in my application. Depending on what you're trying to do, you might possibly find it useful to lake a look at the approach used by PyGINAC, which is a symbolic algebra system (in C++) wrapped with some clever python bindings: http://pyginac.sourceforge.net/ Hope that helps, JP -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
error with "import md5"
Hi all, I'm doing some convoluted stuff with running a python script from inside a shared library that's running inside a Tcl/Tk interpreter. It's all been going surprisingly well, up until the point where my Python script attempts to import matplotlib, which includes a reference to import md5: I get this error bubbling through: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/john/ascend/models/johnpye/extpy/extpytest.py", line 5, in ? import matplotlib; File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/matplotlib/__init__.py", line 150, in ? import md5, os, re, shutil, sys, warnings ImportError: /usr/lib/python2.4/lib-dynload/md5.so: undefined symbol: _Py_NoneStruct Is it possible that this could be a bug in the md5 library (Python 2.4.4c1), or does it look like a problem perhaps with RTDL_NOW | RTDL_LAZY stuff? Cheers JP -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Crash on
Hi all I have a unittest test suite that's testing a fairly large SWIG-wrapped application via Python. All my tests are passing at the moment, but when Python exits, I get the following (shown below). Could anyone please help me to understand what precisely this message means (other than that obviously I have made a mistake with object ownership or INCREF or DECREF somewhere), and what the best way of tracking down the source of the problem might be? Cheers JP -- Ran 63 tests in 3.269s OK python: Modules/gcmodule.c:275: visit_decref: Assertion `gc->gc.gc_refs != 0' failed. process killed by signal 6 program finished with exit code -1 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Getting exceptions back from calls to embedded python
Hi all,
I have an application that is using embedded python to offer some
scripting ability. An API is exposed via SWIG, and I am accessing that
API from my embedded python interpreter.
Scripts are present as separate files, and I'm invoking them at present
using the following:
iserr = PyRun_AnyFileEx(f,name,1);
if(iserr){
/* tell the user */
return 1;
}else{
/* all good */
return 0;
}
My question is, if I want to be able to get information about
exceptions that have occurred here (perhaps a syntax error, or an
import error, or perhaps a runtime error), what would be the easiest
way to do this now?
I understand that I'm currently using the 'very high level interface'
for python embedding. What's the easiest next step down that will allow
me to catch exceptions and report them?
Would appreciate any thoughts.
Cheers
JP
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Re: embedding python -- windows specify problems
Hi Fredrik,
Thanks very much for that reply. Your suggestion sounds feasible, I
guess. Taking what you said, and thinking about how I could avoid adding
an additional intepreter step, I thought that I could try the following:
pyfile = PyFile_FromString(name,"r");
if(pyfile==NULL){
return 1;
}
f = PyFile_AsFile(pyfile);
PyRun_AnyFileEx(f,name,1);
This seems to work on Linux at least (I'll test it tomorrow on my
Windows machine), and presumably it will work around the problem you
mentioned?
Cheers
JP
Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> John Pye wrote:
>
>
>>I have been working on some new code that embeds python in an C
>>application. The embedding is working fine under Linux but crashing
>>under Windows (XP) when I reach the following step.
>>
>>PyRun_AnyFile(f,name);
>>
>>If there's some python exception being thrown by the PyRun_AnyFile call,
>>how can I retrieve it from C?
>>
>>Even when the file (f) being run by Python contains only a 'print'
>>statement, the application still crashes on WinXP.
>
>
> the contents and the layout of the FILE structure isn't defined, so
> PyRun_AnyFile()
> only works if you make sure to open the file using *exactly* the same run
> time library
> as Python itself uses.
>
> it's usually easier to hand the problem over to the interpreter:
>
> PyRun_SimpleString("execfile('myscript.py')\n");
>
> the same approach can be used to implement custom error handling,
> stdout/stderr
> redirects, etc.
>
>
>
>
>
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embedding python -- windows specify problems
Hi all
I have been working on some new code that embeds python in an C
application. The embedding is working fine under Linux but crashing
under Windows (XP) when I reach the following step.
PyRun_AnyFile(f,name);
If there's some python exception being thrown by the PyRun_AnyFile call,
how can I retrieve it from C?
Even when the file (f) being run by Python contains only a 'print'
statement, the application still crashes on WinXP. The linking to Python
seems to be working OK, and the following C code that precedes the above
PyRun_AnyFile statement seems to be working fine:
PyRun_SimpleString("import ascpy");
PyRun_SimpleString("L = ascpy.Library()");
PyRun_SimpleString("print L");
Can anyone suggest what some good diagnostic steps would be?
My embedding code is at the following link. I'm happy to explain the
architecture in more detail if that helps.
https://pse.cheme.cmu.edu/svn-view/ascend/code/branches/extfn/models/johnpye/extpy/
Any suggestions very much appreciated!
Cheers
JP
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