I am expecting these lists to be huge and was hoping to avoid re-parsing in python. Any way for the c program to return a list that python can directly use. <br>Thanks for the pointer to json :) I am going to explore and evaluate re-parsing overhead.<br>
thanks,<br>Ravi.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 10:19 AM, bob gailer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bgailer@gmail.com">bgailer@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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Hi,<br>
I am writing a script to read list output from a C executable. How should c program be written so that python can read the output as a list?<br>
Any pointers to info on this appreciated.<br>
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Funny that a C programmer is asking for pointers, when C has lots of pointers and Python has none. <chuckle><br>
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Python I/O reads strings. So you must encode the list in some manner into a string and decode it into a list in the Python program.<br>
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Take a look as json. <a href="http://www.json.org/" target="_blank">http://www.json.org/</a><br>
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There are links to C and Python. You should be able there to findThats how to encode in C and decode in Python.<br>
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You could "roll your own" encoding" but I think json would be easier.<br>
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