python/ruby question..

[Mensanator]

On Jun 18, 10:33�pm, "bruce" <bedoug... at earthlink.net> wrote:
> hi...
>
> can someone point me to where/how i would go about calling a ruby app from a
> python app, and having the python app being able to get a returned value
> from the ruby script.
>
> something like
>
> test.py
> �a = os.exec(testruby.rb)
>
> testruby.py
> �foo = 9
> �return foo
>
> i know this doesn't work... but i've been searching for hours on this with
> no luck.... (and yeah, i'm relatively new to both ruby/python!!)
>
> thanks

Well, I don't know anything about Ruby, but here's
how I do it for C programs (compiled to .exe that
write to stdout).


import os
factor_program = 'factor! -d200 ' # factor!.exe from MIRACL

n =
'50818429800343305993022114330311033271249313957919046352679206262204589342623811236647989889145173098650749'

# call external program and capture stdout
the_output = os.popen(factor_program+n).readlines()

print 'n: %s' % n
for i in the_output:
    print i,

##    n:
50818429800343305993022114330311033271249313957919046352679206262204589342623811236647989889145173098650749
##    PRIME_FACTOR     37
##    PRIME_FACTOR     43
##    PRIME_FACTOR     167
##    COMPOSITE_FACTOR 507787751
##    PRIME_FACTOR     69847
##    PRIME_FACTOR     30697
##    PRIME_FACTOR     89017
##    PRIME_FACTOR     3478697
##    PRIME_FACTOR     434593
##    PRIME_FACTOR     49998841
##    PRIME_FACTOR     161610704597143
##    PRIME_FACTOR     14064370273
##    COMPOSITE_FACTOR 963039394703598565337297
##    PRIME_FACTOR     11927295803