Perl playing nice with Python

tomazos has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Dear Monks,

I have just started a new job and have been handed two systems to integrate.

One is a complex testing script (for embedded systems) written in Perl.

The other is a batch processing web server written in Python.

Basically I need to get Perl and Python "talking to each other".

I was wondering if anything is available for the purposes of calling Perl from Python and visa-versa?

Do you have any general advice on integrating Perl and Python systems?

Thanks.

Update: Thanks for the responses. I think what I want is an "Inline::Perl" for Python. Does such a beast exist? Has someone embedded a Perl interpretter in Python?

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Re: Perl playing nice with Python by adrianh (Chancellor) on Oct 04, 2005 at 09:28 UTC
Inline::Python? perlipc?	[reply]
Re: Perl playing nice with Python by blazar (Canon) on Oct 04, 2005 at 09:15 UTC
Some of the options described in perldoc perlipc {may,should} still apply. Provided that you find out how to do the corresponding stuff in Python, that is. Communicating over a socket or even through a named pipe (assuming you're under *NIX here) should be no trouble at all...	[reply]
Re: Perl playing nice with Python by Perl Mouse (Chaplain) on Oct 04, 2005 at 09:26 UTC
That depends on what you mean by "calling each other". It could be as simple as "system", if you want to call one program from the other. Or you might want to communicate over a pipe, socket or message queue. Or exchange information using files or databases. Or do you want to call procedures in each other? Then you might want SOAP or even RPC. Or do you want to embed one in the other? That's possible too - Parrot isn't quite ready yet, but go read "man perlembed". `Perl --((8:>*`	[reply]
Re:Perl playing nice with Python by bioMan (Beadle) on Oct 04, 2005 at 15:20 UTC
If you are working in Windows ActiveState has a perl/python integration project called PyPerl. Mike	[reply]


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