On Nov 1, 4:14 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > q#1: > in C I want to check if a given PyObject is a xml.dom.minidom.Node (or > a derivative). > how do i extract a PyTypeObject for such a class?
nevermind, i found an instance object that will work for me as long as i figure out where is the documentation beyond this: http://docs.python.org/api/instanceObjects.html on the data attrib access and extracting PyClassObject from it. > > issue #2 > I'm in a situation when i don't really need to extend python with any > classes of my own but > i do have extra luggage for the python data structures such as tuples, > lists, dictionaries, etc > on the c++ side. I see no place in PyObject_HEAD where i can stick a > void* to my extra data. > If i enter a feature request into bugzilla for python do you think it > will be well received? > #ifdefed of course like the prev/next extras. > I'm surprised noone else is using evil twin approach. > The reason i'm asking is because while for dictionaries i can stick > weak pointer back to my c++ > object in a key with an obscure name while in lists this would change > the list size and thus > is obviously not as easy to "hide" from the client code. > a placeholder in a pyobject would've been of help here -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
