Why does the Python/C API crash on PyRun_SimpleFile?

Question

I\'ve been experimenting with embedding different scripting languages in a C++ application, currently I\'m trying Stackless Python 3.1. I\'ve tried several tutorials and exa

Answer 1

I was getting a similar crash & did the below:

   PyObject* PyFileObject = PyFile_FromString("test.py", "r");
   PyRun_SimpleFileEx(PyFile_AsFile(PyFileObject), "test.py", 1);

Note that this was in python 2.7 though. I don't know if the API has changed in 3.x.