From: "Brad Clements" <bkc@murkworks.com>
Subject: Re: [Python-bugs-list] Python 1.5.2 bug, tried to post but got error (PR#121)
Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1999 20:22:21 -0500

Here it is again.

Also, I believe this will resolve  FAQ entry 8.10


> 8.10. Can't get Py_RunSimpleFile() to work.
> This is very sensitive to the compiler vendor, version and (perhaps) even
> options. If the FILE* structure in your embedding program isn't the same as
> is assumed by the Python interpreter it won't work. The Python 1.5.* DLLs
> (python15.dll) are all compiled with MS VC++ 5.0 and with
> multithreading-DLL options (/MD, I think). 
> 
> If you can't change compilers or flags, try using Py_RunSimpleString(). A
> trick to get it to run an arbitrary file is to construct a call to
> execfile() with the name of your file as argument. 
> 
> 
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> -----


> Here's what I said for Python 1.5.2 on Win32 #0
> 
> PyRun_SimpleFile, PyRun_File and other functions that take a FILE * are not 
> usable on WIN32 from non-VC applications because python15.dll is statically 
> linked to the MS runtime DLL. Embedding applications that try to use these 
> functions are passing in FILE * structures that do not match MS's runtime 
> format. 
> 
> For example, I'm using Python in a Borland C++ Builder application. Although I 
> can open a FILE *, when passed to python15.dll the FILE * is not usable.
> 
> The addition of two helper functions would solve this problem:
> 
> FILE * PyRun_OpenFile(char *file, char *mode) 
> {
>   return fopen(file,mode)
> }
> 
> int PyRun_CloseFile(FILE *ptr)
> {
>   return fclose(ptr)
> }
> 
> This way embedding apps could get python15.dll to open the file and it would 
> work.
> 
> A temporary workaround is to always load the .pyc file in PyRun_SimpleFile..


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