#include main() { int cval; PyObject *pdict, *pval; Py_Initialize(); /* make a new namespace */ pdict = PyDict_New(); PyDict_SetItemString(pdict, "__builtins__", PyEval_GetBuiltins()); PyDict_SetItemString(pdict, "Y", PyInt_FromLong(2)); /* dict['Y'] = 2 */ PyRun_String("X = 99", Py_file_input, pdict, pdict); /* run statements */ PyRun_String("X = X+Y", Py_file_input, pdict, pdict); /* same X and Y */ pval = PyDict_GetItemString(pdict, "X"); /* fetch dict['X'] */ PyArg_Parse(pval, "i", &cval); /* convert to C */ printf("%d\n", cval); /* result=101 */ Py_DECREF(pdict); }