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I've developed a simple interface package, taking advantage of the fact that all applications built with our tools can link and run against the Python interpreter, to allow a seamles invokation seamless invocation of Python code from C++. Jim Chiang has provided invaluable help and suggested extensions.
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The very small interface packages is "embed_python". It is currently in ScienceTools LATEST, and will migrate to the release soon. Non-ScienceTool users can check it out and build it.
Here is the outline of a very simple complete package that runs a test program, named "test_python", in only three files. The requirements file:
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package test_python use embed_python * application runit main.cxx |
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