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Subject: Re: Import Python library into an Ada package?
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On Saturday, December 5, 2020 at 10:42:26 AM UTC+11, Roger Mc wrote:
> > What about this: 
> > 
> > https://docs.adacore.com/gnatcoll-docs/scripting.html 
> > 
> > I have a rudimentary Python bindings independent on GNATColl, which I 
> > use to run Python scripts from Ada. They were designed to load Python 
> > dynamically, I did not want to make the application dependent on Python 
> > installed. If you want, you can use them as a template. There is no 
> > documentation, but the code using them. But as I said, better not... (:-)) 
> > -- 
> > Regards, 
> > Dmitry A. Kazakov 
> > http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de
> I would really appreciate seeing your "rudimentary Python bindings ". 
> In the meantime I must study gnatcoll-docs/scripting.html more closely. 
> I have made a start using an example I found on the web but unfortunately it crashes with an EXC_SOFTWARE, Software generated exception which I think may be due to an invalid process descriptor. 
> Thanks, 
> Roger

Some good news.
I now have my example working.
The problem was simply not specifying the correct path to my Python module!