How to execute a C program in Python?

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I want to write a program in Python which takes a C program as input, executes it against the test cases which are also as inputs and print the output for each test case. I am using Windows.

Posted 13-Dec-14 18:29pm

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Accepted Answer · 2014-12-13T19:12:00

Please see:
https://docs.python.org/2/library/subprocess.html[^],
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/880918/how-to-redirect-the-output-of-exe-to-a-file-in-python[^].

However, starting and using of external process, in most cases, is a pretty bad, very limited approach. You get almost no control over the spawn process, so this approach is mostly limited to console-only application taking input from a command line and putting the output in a standard console, or some files. Much better approach would be using the library (DLL) by a Python application. How to do it depends on the particular Python implementation; some provide interoperability with native DLLs, some work with .NET assemblies…

—SA