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Python based user interface for an Fortran application

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I want to build a Python based user interface for an existing Fortran application (as everyone wants to do ;)). Lets assume the application is parametrised via cmdline parameters and it calculates tons of numbers
that have to find their way into the Python UI. There are several ways to achieve this: using stdin/stdout to exchange data, using files, converting the application to a library and load that from Python, etc.

I thought about equipping the Fortran application with sockets, so that I can send input data and commands (which is now done via cmd line) and reading output data back.

Any thought on this or any best practices?

posted Jun 9, 2014 by anonymous

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Is the application a complete black box? Sounds to me like you have the power to edit it, so I'm guessing you have the source code and some knowledge of how it works. If you can, as you suggest, convert it into a library that can be called from a C program, you can use Cython to call on it from Python. That'd be my first recommendation.

(One-and-a-halfth recommendation: If the actual application is very simple, and most of its work is done in library functions, access the library via Cython, and port the main application logic entirely into Python. No need to wrap the application into a library, that way.)

Second option would be some kind of coroutine system, interfacing via a socket. That's quite a good option; all you have to do is settle, between the two, a set of protocol rules. Some examples:

  • Everything is encoded in ASCII. (That gives you the option of expanding to UTF-8 later, if you need full Unicode, but keeps it really easy for now.)
  • Commands and responses are terminated with end-of-line, 0x0A.
  • Commands follow the basic shell style of command, then a space (0x20), then parameters.
  • If you don't need to overlay responses: One command's responses end with a dot (0x2E) on a blank line. (See SMTP for an example of this.)
  • If you do need to have multiple commands in flight simultaneously: Every command is prefixed with an arbitrary token, followed by a space, and every line of response is prefixed with the same token. (See IMAP for an example of this.)

Nut out your protocol first, before you write a single line of code. Keep your protocol document up-to-date if you change anything. Then, if you want to write a different program for one end or the other, you can guarantee that they'll be able to communicate. And if you want to change from Unix sockets to TCP/IP sockets, or to stdin/stdout, or to any other system, the translation will be easier for having that document.

Third option: Keep the application as it is, and use Python's subprocess module to send it parameters and maybe stdin, and retrieve its stdout.

answer Jun 9, 2014 by anonymous
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