Message 671 - Python tracker (original) (raw)

From: Guido van Rossum <guido@CNRI.Reston.VA.US> Subject: Re: [Python-bugs-list] Python 1.5.2 bug, tried to post but got error (PR#121) Date: Wed, 03 Nov 1999 20:08:11 -0500

I tried to post a bug, but got this error:

The system encountered a fatal error

We were being slammed by a defective spider (or, if you're more paranoid, by a hacker) so we temporarily turned off the webserver. It should be back on now.

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..

This is an elegant solution. I think I'll add it.

Could you mail me your suggestion again with the legal boilerplate included? See http://www.python.org/1.5/bugrelease.html for the text and explanation. Our lawyers require that I request this silliness...

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)