Guido van Rossum wrote: > On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 4:55 PM, Neal Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> There is some discussion on this subject, archived here: >> http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.general/560661 >> >> I wonder if anyone could shed some light on this subject? >> >> (Or, help me understand, what is the difference between a type that I >> create using python C api and a python class?) > > This is prohibited intentionally to prevent accidental fatal changes > to built-in types (fatal to parts of the code that you never though > of). Also, it is done to prevent the changes to affect different > interpreters residing in the address space, since built-in types > (unlike user-defined classes) are shared between all such > interpreters. >
Thanks for the info. I'm still curious. What if I wanted to create a 'real' python class using python c-api? How is that done? _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
