On Sep 29, 2:27 am, "lallous" <lall...@lgwm.org> wrote: > Hello > > From my C extension module I want to store a C pointer in a given PyObject. > > The only way I figure how to do it is to use Py_BuildValues and store the > poiner casted to Py_ssize_t, thus: > > Py_BuildValues("n", (Py_ssize_t)my_ptr) > > Can it be done differently? > > Regards, > Elias
You can use a "PyCObject_FromVoidPtr" http://docs.python.org/c-api/cobject.html PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "O", &pyVoidPointer); castPointer = (type *) PyCObject_AsVoidPtr(pyVoidPointer); return PyCObject_FromVoidPtr((void *) castPointer, NULL); -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list