[Tutor] (no subject) (fwd)

[Danny Yoo]

Hi Oren,

I'm forwarding your message to the Tutor list; it's usually better to keep
the discussion on the mailing list, so that if any one of us gives a silly
answer, others can step in to make sure a satisfactory answer is given.


I think you may want to ask your question on comp.lang.python though
rather than Tutor; I'm not sure how many of us here have experience with
VMS.  The only resources I've been able to find on this is:

    http://www.pi-net.dyndns.org/docs/python_vms/genman/history.html

I haven't found anything newer than 1.52 for OpenVMS, but then, I'm not
familiar enough with the architecture.


I hope you can find what you're looking for!


---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 08:45:23 +0300
From: Oren Levy <oren@softserv.attunity.co.il>
To: Danny Yoo <dyoo@hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu>
Subject: Re: [Tutor] (no subject)

Re: [Tutor] (no subject)0.TNX a lot

1.I have experience of 2 years with python but It my first time with
python-extending

2.I already found the answer

3.It doesn't work because your example (spam.c) doesn't contain
"__declspec(dllexport)" before exported function "init..." (very popular
"copy - paste" bug :) )

4.Another question I want to use python on alpha-VMS,I already download
from ftp site VMS-version but It doesn't contain instructions,do u have
any newer python - version for VMS? how can I install it on alpha-VMS(I
think I need to recompile something), please answer me -it very necessary

tnx again
Oren


----- Original Message -----
  From: Danny Yoo
  To: Oren Levy
  Cc: tutor@python.org
  Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 9:35 PM
  Subject: Re: [Tutor] (no subject)





  On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, Oren Levy wrote:

  > I have the example of "spam.c" It complie & link well to dll (Im using
  > MS-Visual studio 6) But I didn't understand how to use it ?,Where I need
  > to put the files "spam.dll" and "spam.h"?

  Hi Oren,

  Just to confirm: what experience do you have with Python?  It sounds like
  you're building Python C extensions: it's an advanced topic, so we just
  want to make sure you know what you're getting into.  *grin* Are you a
  newcomer to the language?



  Once you've compiled a C module, you can move it over to a place where it
  can be imported.  This is often in the 'lib/site-packages/' subdirectory
  where Python's installed.  Afterwards, it should behave as if it were a
  regular Python module.



  Again, if you're not used to Python's module system yet, you may want to
  hold off writing C extensions until Python modules are more familiar to
  you.



  Good luck!