On Friday, May 9, 2014 7:59:14 PM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote: > The similarities and differences between the variable models are no > more relevant. What becomes relevant are the PyObject* pointer (the C > interface to a Python object (not variable)) and the various functions > for manipulating namespaces, mainly dictionaries. If anything, you > need to be more aware that Python and C variables are completely > different beasts. CPython's C API [1] is fairly manual; you INCREF and > DECREF objects, there's no concept of "automatic variables", etc etc > etc.
On the contrary, you need to respect the C system to get past the C compiler. And you need to uphold the expected python invariants to get code that works. So the variables inside the C functions are (as always in C) automatic But they dont become easily and naturally such in python Hence all the INCREF/ownership etc headaches IOW one needs to have both worlds under one's belt Of course one can use swig or boost or ctype and replace one headache with other(s) -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
