embedded Python sample

[bruno Monnet]

Syver Enstad <syver-en+usenet at online.no> wrote in message news:<ur8g16aiw.fsf at online.no>...
> monnetb at yahoo.com (bruno Monnet) writes:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm trying to call a python script from my c++ code. All I need is to
> > invoke the script and check the return status.
> > 
> > does anyone has a simple example ? All I found until now is very
> > complex and ugly code :-((
> 
> I think something like this will do (untested)
> 
> void runPythonFile(char* myfile)
> {
> FILE* fileptr = fopen(myfile, 'r'); 
> Py_Initialize();
> int result = PyRun_SimpleFile(fileptr, myfile);
> Py_Finalize();
> return result;
> }
> 
> You should get some ideas by reading the Extending/Embedding section
> in the python manual, and then read the relevant sections the Python/C api.

This sample looks great, but I'm coding for windows and the library
used by python for fopen is not compliant with the multithreaded lib
used by Visual 6.0 projects ...