Embedding (PyRun_SimpleFile)

[Gordon McMillan]

nick_knight at my-deja.com wrote:

>I am trying to use the following code ( on a windows platform)

[snip]

>int main(int argc, char* argv[])
>{
>    char *filename = "e:\\downloads\\python\\testbed\\test.py";
>    Py_Initialize();    //Required
>
>    FILE *OurFile = fopen(filename,"rb");
>    PyRun_SimpleFile(OurFile,filename);
>    //PyRun_SimpleString("print 'Hello'");
>     return 0;
>}
>
>- where thr file test.py contains
>print "Hello"
>
>every time I run the program ,
>
>'import exceptions' failed; use -v for traceback
>Warning!  Falling back to string-based exceptions
>'import site' failed; use -v for traceback

Python can't figure out what sys.path should be.

>gets printed out to stdio, also when the program enters
>PyRun_SimpleFile MSVC comes up with a unhandled exeption

Since you can't be bothered to tell us what the exception is, I'll guess 
that you're not using the same c runtime Python is, so when you pass that 
FILE * from your code to Python, msvcrt.dll (which is what Python uses) 
doesn't like it.

-Gordon