[Tutor] reading output from a c executable.

[Eike Welk]

On Thursday 11 December 2008, Ravi Kondamuru wrote:
> This was a great info exchange for me.
> I am going to try out the all-python solution and see how it works
> out. thank you all,

You could try to optimize slow parts with the compiled Cython 
language. Nearly all Python code is legal Cython; but if you declare 
variables as C datatypes operations with these variables will be fast 
like in C.
http://www.cython.org/
Introduction for C programmers:
http://docs.cython.org/docs/language_basics.html

The language is geared a bit towards numerical computations. However 
Python strings are automatically converted to 'char *', so it is 
useful for you. 

Cython is a fork of Pyrex, which can keep up fairly well with real C 
programs:
http://www.scipy.org/PerformancePython#head-a73fa06d3c4f3bda71b3526d30d51c492d8f80df

Kind regards,
Eike.