Hello all, I am considering python as a 'scripting' language to be used in my application where users must be able to write their own code to access application data, use the application mechanisms to gather various data and basicly must be able to control the application itself.
Currently, to accomplish this task, my app uses my custom C-like language and my bytecode interpreter. In this case I am able to control the execution of a single 'instruction' in my interpreter and interpret the user code when I want. It also enables me to support multiple 'user tasks' (not a system LWP-like tasks, but a higher-level concurrent execution simulation - each task has it's own interpreter and each interpreter is executed every n-th iteration for example). I have glanced at the python/C api ref manual and know I can use the 'PyRun_InteractiveOne' to execute a single python statement, but am not sure if there's a way to 'precompile' python code and prepare it for execution so I can interpret the precompiled statements one-by-one, similarly to my custom interpreter. I noticed the 'Py_CompileString' but am not sure what to do and how to interact with 'PyObject*' it returns me - how do I run it, can I interrupt it when it's executing, can I run it on per-statement basis'? Any help or pointers where to look for answers to my questions is grately apreciated. Thanks, Regards, Mario -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
