Hi, Background / Goal: My team's application does regressions by controlling our 64-bit Windows/Linux C++ application (SimNow, www.amd.com/simnow) via stdout/stdin with ("pexpect" for unix) and (python COM objects) for Windows (b/c popen doesn't work). However, I am trying to replace this with a unified windows/linux solution. The idea is to extend Python with a SimNow-control module. My sole goal in extending a python module is so our python regressions scripts can use python to control SimNow via SimNow's stdin/stdout interface. Sample Final results: import simnow simnow.start() # start simnow executable output1 = simnow.sendCommand("load platform x") # blocking call, sends simnow cmd, returns the output string Disutils: Does extending python with Disutils sound like the simple and clean way for my goal? Is there a simple cookbook solution for my goal? (Btw, someone on my team already embedded python into SimNow. But I think we actually want to extend python, so to control SimNow from our python regressions code/infrastructure.) --Thanks, any response is appreciated! Peter Mowry ("Pem") SimNow Team, Software Engineer AMD Organization
