Embedding question (doing Python from C)

[Gordon McMillan]

Randy Heiland writes:

> I have a C++ server executing Python scripts using just
> PyRun_SimpleString and it works great -- mostly.  However, it
> doesn't handle more complicated Python commands/constructs, e.g., a
> 'for' loop. Can someone offer advice?

What seems to be the problem? PyRun_SimpleString can't hack Windows 
line endings (should just be '\n'), and requires a null-terminated 
string, but said SimpleString's contents can be arbitrarily complex 
Python code.

- Gordon