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PyRun_SimpleFile crashing under Windows 2000

quadric at primenet.com quadric at primenet.com
Sun Jun 1 21:50:47 EDT 2003 
Hi,

I have embedded Python in an application and am wanting to run a startup script
when the application starts.  I am running under Windows 2000 Pro, 
compiling with MSVC 6.0
and using same compiler switches and libraries as the python22.dll was 
created with.

Python initializes fine and I can run simple strings and get results back.

When I execute the following code,  I crash with a fatal "memory can't be 
written" error.

Here is the code:


int PythonStartup()
{
	int ret = 0;

	char * startup = Py_GETENV("PYTHONSTARTUP");

	if (startup != NULL && startup[0] != '\0')
	{
		FILE *fp = fopen(startup, "r");
	
		if (fp != NULL)
		{
			(void) PyRun_SimpleFile(fp, startup);
			PyErr_Clear();
			fclose(fp);
		}
		else
		{
			fprintf(stdout , "Can't open %s. Critical macro support data not 
available!\n" , startup );
		}
	}
	else
	{
		fprintf(stdout , "PYTHONSTARTUP is not specified. Critical macro support 
data not available!\n" );
	}

     return ret;
}




The PYTHONSTARTUP variable contains a fully qualified path and file similar 
to  => 
f:\some_directory\some_sub_directory\another_sub_directory\file_name.py.

Also, the script file is a text file, not byte compiled and contains some 
simple import statements etc....


I have run the app thru the debugger and determined that the failure is at 
the      PyRun_SimpleFile(fp, startup);    call but have
not attempted to debug into the python source to see where it fails.

I was hoping someone on the list has had this problem and could save me 
some grief.

Anyone had this same problem?  If so, any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.
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