You could refactor the C code into a library, then call it from Django. There are several ways to interface with a C library in Python, but you might want to look at ctypes:
http://docs.python.org/library/ctypes.html It means you don't have to write extra C code just to do the interfacing. On Apr 13, 12:14 am, Graeck <gra...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > Just looking for input ... tips, suggestions, etc. > > We have an old web app written in C using CGIs. All the html is > generating in the C code using print statements. It's become almost > impossible to do anything other than make very minor UI changes due to > the complexity of the code and the tediousness of trying to make UI > updates via 1000s of print statements. So, we're thinking of moving to > something like Django. > > Since Python can call C code (libraries, functions, etc, if I'm > understanding correctly - I'm pretty new at Python myself - and > Django), would it be feasible to build the UI templates in Python/ > Django and still be able to reuse some of our C code - the stuff that > crunches the huge amounts of data that we have to process? > > I've started reading:http://docs.python.org/extending/extending.html > > But any input (esp from people that might have trie such a migration > before) would be appreciated. > > Thanks! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
