Using Python to Execute a C or FORTRAN Program (Windows)

[Mensanator]

On Dec 16, 8:41 pm, "W. eWatson" <wolftra... at invalid.com> wrote:
> Mensanator wrote:
> > On Dec 14, 8:14 pm, "W. eWatson" <wolftra... at invalid.com> wrote:
> >> I think Python is capable of executing a compiled C or FORTRAN program,
>
> > Sure, if it was compiled to an .exe file.
>
> >> and maybe even getting some parameters passed back.
>
> > Sure, if the program prints to stdout.
>
> >> Does anyone have a
> >> example of how this might be done? I'm running under Win XP Pro.
>
> > Here's one. The test program is factor.exe (included in
> > the MIRACL library). I recompiled it (factor!.exe) to
> > produce consitent output.
>
> ...
> Thanks. OK, I think I can follow that. I want to pass it along to
> someone who either missed this possibility in some coding, ignored it,
> or felt more comfortable about just writing the whole program from
> scratch in c++. His program was originally written in Python, but a new
> hardware device (capture card) had no good interface with Python, so he
> wrote it in C++, which does. From my knowledge of the Python program
> before the entry of c++, it seems he could have farmed out the hardware
> interface in much the same way he had done it before with a capture card
> well know to him.
>
> Would the same Python interface work for a compiled C++ program?

If it runs from the command line and writes to stdout, I don't
why it wouldn't.