[Python-Dev] PEP 573 -- Module State Access from C Extension Methods

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Thu Apr 26 10:37:55 EDT 2018


On 26 April 2018 at 04:46, Jeroen Demeyer <J.Demeyer at ugent.be> wrote:
> On 2018-04-25 20:33, Petr Viktorin wrote:
>>
>> Perhaps "m_objclass" could point to the module in this case
>
>
> That was exactly my idea also today. Instead of treating m_objclass as the
> defining class, we should generalize it to be the "parent" of the function:
> either the class or the module.

PEP 487 refers to this as the "owner" of a descriptor (See the
"__set_name__" example implementation in
https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0487/#trait-descriptors ).

Cheers,
Nick.

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