Ravi Kondamuru wrote:
I am expecting these lists to be huge and was hoping to avoid re-parsing
in python. Any way for the c program to return a list that python can
Mind if I ask the obvious question here? Why are you wanting to avoid
parsing in Python? Any time you have one program (in any language)
leave data behind for another program to consume, you're going to have
some level of interpretation on the data, whether you're reading raw
bytes and assuming you know how to put them together again or parsing
ASCII characters or whatever.
Try something simple first and see if you get reasonable performance
from it before you get too paranoid about avoiding something that might
not be where you need to focus your attention. Optimizing too early in
the development effort often leads to wasted time on the things that
surprisingly don't contribute to the real performance issues in a program.
If you're output is binary data (like a stream of bytes or words),
Python can read that with a small bit of code to put those bytes into
integer values in a list. I'd suggest something like CSV as a first
try, though, since that way the data will be intelligible for debugging
purposes, leaves the possibility open for other scripts to read and
alter the data too, and is very simple for Python to read via standard
library modules too.
directly use.
Thanks for the pointer to json :) I am going to explore and evaluate
re-parsing overhead.
thanks,
Ravi.
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 10:19 AM, bob gailer <bgai...@gmail.com
<mailto:bgai...@gmail.com>> 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.
Funny that a C programmer is asking for pointers, when C has lots of
pointers and Python has none. <chuckle>
Python I/O reads strings. So you must encode the list in some manner
into a string and decode it into a list in the Python program.
Take a look as json. http://www.json.org/
There are links to C and Python. You should be able there to
findThats how to encode in C and decode in Python.
You could "roll your own" encoding" but I think json would be easier.
Remember to reply-all so a copy goes to the list.
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Bob Gailer
Chapel Hill NC 919-636-4239
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