2009/6/3 Bryan Buck <bbuck3898@emailias.com>:
Hi,
I have a question about PyPy - I hope this mailing list is the right place for it, let me know if not.
Is there any way to link PyPy's Python interpreter with a C program and call it from C? I'm interested in embedding the interpreter in another program as its scripting engine. (The reason I'm looking at PyPy instead of CPython is that I'd like to use the sandboxing feature.)
Not easily. The best way would probably be to run pypy in a subprocess.
Thanks for any information you can give me.
-- Regards, Benjamin
Thank you for your reply. A subprocess is a possibility, although I'd like to avoid it if I can. Of course I was hoping there was some already- available way to do this that I had overlooked, but if necessary modifying PyPy isn't totally out of the question. How difficult is not easily? I guess I would have to change the translator to produce a library instead of an executable, and create an API for calling the interpreter from C? It does seem like a somewhat involved project, but I'm just trying to gauge the relative difficulty vs. the other possibilities I have in mind (all of which would also take significant effort). Thanks, Bryan Buck On Wed, 03 Jun 2009 12:17 -0500, "Benjamin Peterson" <benjamin@python.org> wrote: th