[Tutor] Executing Python from TCL

[Karim]

Thanks Alan,

For clarify that. The speed is not an issue people just need config
files generated from xml to feed EDA simulations and validations tools.

Karim

On 08/12/2010 09:39 AM, Alan Gauld wrote:
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> "Karim" <karim.liateni at free.fr> wrote
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>> Anyway, you're right I found what I needed at:
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>> http://sourceforge.net/projects/elmer/files/elmer/elmer1.1.5/elmer1.1.5.tar.gz/download 
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>> This is the open source Elmer distribution.
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> OK, glad you found something and I'm sure it will be worth a try.
> But I'm pretty sure it will have to embed the Python interpreter
> so that the Tcl interpreter will call the python interpreter to execute
> the parser. That could lead to a significant slow down of your code.
> If speed is not a high priority you may get away with it. At least
> it should prove the concept and design of the app.
>
> But you may still find you need to use a native Tcl parser if speed
> is an issue. (Then again, if speed  was a big issue you probably
> wouldn't be working in Tcl or even Python!)
>
> HTH
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