Using Python to Execute a C or FORTRAN Program (Windows)

W. eWatson wolftracks at invalid.com
Thu Dec 17 11:29:26 EST 2009


sturlamolden wrote:
> On 17 Des, 03:41, "W. eWatson" <wolftra... at invalid.com> wrote:
> 
>> His program was originally written in Python, but a new
>> hardware device (capture card) had no good interface with Python, so he
>> wrote it in C++, which does. From my knowledge of the Python program
>> before the entry of c++, it seems he could have farmed out the hardware
>> interface in much the same way he had done it before with a capture card
>> well know to him.
> 
> This sounds a bit incompetent.
> 
> Why didn't he just write an extension module in C++?
> 
> Also, if you don't know how to spawn a subprocess, I'd question your
> competence as well.
> 

I can't read his mind.



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