I am trying to read a binary log file to extract system counters. These counters will then be used to generate web-based graphs using the chart-director api in python. For extracting the counters I planning to write a program in C to read and give the output as lists for use by chart-director. If possible i would like to do the parsing of data only once in C on the log file and pass the processed output for direct use by python. I have thought about having to populate a database first but will prefer to avoid having another intermediate datastore (apart from the log file).
thanks, Ravi. On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 10:27 AM, Steve Willoughby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Ravi Kondamuru wrote: > >> Hi, >> I am writing a script to read list output from a C executable. How should >> c program be written so that python can read the output as a list? >> Any pointers to info on this appreciated. >> > > The possibilities are truly wide open on this. Python can read a variety > of standard formats (and of course can have custom code to read anything. > Depending on what the data involved actually are, you need to decide what > format works best. > > A simple approach is to have the C program write simple CSV output, and use > Python's csv module to read it. A more complex solution might be to use > XML. There are approximately 52,495,102 other possibilities available too, > so you have lots of room to work out what's best for your application. > More specific information on what you're trying to accomplish would help > narrow it down as well. >
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