I stumbled upon Ragestorm.net’s great tutorial on Python embedding when I was trying to embed Python in a Cocoa application and redirect standard output / standard error to an NSTextView. Ragestorm’s tutorial is not particularly about Cocoa / Objective-C, but does though solve the problem. Stdout / stderr is simply redirected using a fragment of [...]

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SWIG makes the creation of bindings for C/C++ libraries easy for various high-level exits (Java, Perl, PHP, Python, etc.). However, in the case of Python on OS X, when the actual SWIG wrapper is finished the difficulties begin: one needs to create an adequate dynamic library for the Python runtime — and like with everything [...]

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