[Python-Dev] Finding the module from PyTypeObject?

[Michael Hudson]

Nick Bastin <nbastin at opnet.com> writes:

> 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.

Huh?  The code above *winds up* calling type_module!

Cheers,
mwh

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