create a class instance from C API?

[lallous]

Hello

How to programmatically create a class instance of a given Python class?

For example to create a new list there is the PyObject *PyList_New() but
suppose the user already defined a class:

class X: pass

How to create an instance of it from my C extension module?

Regards,
Elias

 

[Carl Banks]

Hello

How to programmatically create a class instance of a given Python class?

For example to create a new list there is the PyObject *PyList_New() but
suppose the user already defined a class:

class X: pass

How to create an instance of it from my C extension module?

Same way you'd do it in Python: call it. Use PyObject_Call or any of
it's convenient variants. Example (leaving off all the error-checking
stuff):

mod = PyImport_ImportModule(modname);
cls = PyObject_GetAttrStr(mod,classname);
inst = PyObject_CallFunctionObjArgs(cls,NULL);


Carl Banks

 

[lallous]

Thanks Carl, that does it!

--
Elias

Same way you'd do it in Python: call it. Use PyObject_Call or any of
it's convenient variants. Example (leaving off all the error-checking
stuff):

mod = PyImport_ImportModule(modname);
cls = PyObject_GetAttrStr(mod,classname);
inst = PyObject_CallFunctionObjArgs(cls,NULL);


Carl Banks