[Python-Dev] Finding the module from PyTypeObject?

[Nick Bastin]

On Sep 29, 2004, at 4:17 PM, Armin Rigo wrote:

> Hello Nick,
>
> On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 01:24:23PM -0400, Nick Bastin wrote:
>> Ok, maybe more appropriately, what do people think of adding a
>> PyType_GetModule (PyTypeObject *) which basically functions like
>> type_module(PyTypeObject *, void *) (in Objects/typeobject.c) to the
>> public C API, rather than having to dig around in the object
>> themselves?
>
> It looks overkill, when you can do instead:
>
>   PyObject* module_name = PyObject_GetAttrString(type, "__module__");

That only works most of the time, I think.  To be honest, I didn't try 
that, but it doesn't seem that type_module would jump through the hoops 
it does if that worked all of the time, unless parsing tp_name is 
legacy code.

--
Nick