How to parse (in the C code) a tuple not sent as an argument?

[Fred L. Drake, Jr.]

Wojciech Zabolotny writes:
 > I have to parse in my C extension module a rather complicated tuple,
 > which is not send as an argument.
 > Is it correct and safe to use the PyArg_ParseTuple for this purpose?

  This is perfectly reasonable.  You can use the ';' format character
to specify an error message to use when a TypeError is raised because
the tuple being parsed doesn't match the format specifier.


  -Fred

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