embedding interactive python interpreter

[eryksun ()]

On Sunday, March 27, 2011 11:06:47 PM UTC-4, Eric Frederich wrote:
> I'm not sure that I know how to run this function in such a way that
> it gives me an interactive session.
> I passed in stdin as the first parameter and NULL as the second and
> I'd get seg faults when running exit() or even imnport sys.

Passing NULL as the 2nd parameter causes the segfault. Do this instead:

    FILE* fp = stdin;
    char *filename = "Embedded";
    PyRun_InteractiveLoop(fp, filename);

See here regarding the segfault:

http://bugs.python.org/issue5121