[Pythonmac-SIG] Embedding in code resource

[Jack Jansen]

> I'm trying to embed MacPython (Classic) in a plug-in code resource for
> another application.  Basically, I need to be able to start up an
> interactive interpreter, let the user play around in it, then exit clea=
nly
> to the calling application.  I had little difficulty getting the first =
part
> of that working, by linking against PythonCore and calling
> PyMac_Initialize, etc.  However, there's a big problem when trying to
> return - all ways of exiting the interpreter seem to eventually involve=
 a C
> exit() call, which is a complete disaster from a code resource.  Does
> anyone know of a way to get the interpreter to exit cleanly to its call=
er?

what you want to do is probably
  PyMac_Initialize();
  PyRun_AnyFile(stdin_for_python, "<stdin>");
I think this should never call exit(), but always return.

Depending on how your code resource is linked against PythonCore you may =
be =

able to do simply "stdin" for stdin_for_python, but it could also be more=
 work =

to get at that.

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