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Re: Calling a Python script from IDL [message #40059 is a reply to message #40003]

Sun, 11 July 2004 15:54

Michael Wallace
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Registered: December 2003

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>> Is there a way to call a Python script from within IDL and have it
>> return information to the IDL program? (Python is an object-oriented
>> scripting language similar to perl and java). I'm working on
>> visualizing huge amounts of data in an IDL widget, and a python script
>> to parse through this data is already in existance.
>> Thanks,
>> Leslie Welser

You could open a python process with SPAWN and then use shared memory to
send data between the processes. Since you're working on "huge amounts
of data," shared memory would probably be the easiest way to go. The
gotcha to this is that you will probably have to be careful how you
read/write data to the shared memory to make sure that values are
converted between IDL and Python correctly. Don't know if that helps or
not. Happy trails,

-Mike

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		Calling a Python script from IDL By: lwelser on Wed, 07 July 2004 09:45
		Re: Calling a Python script from IDL By: Michael Wallace on Sun, 11 July 2004 15:54
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