Checking the type of a PyObject

[Rainer Deyke]

"wim delvaux" <wim.delvaux at adaptiveplanet.com> wrote in message
news:3B75D4D4.61B32D80 at adaptiveplanet.com...
> Hi all,
>
> just looking at python and wondering if I could integrate it.
>
> While thinking I was wondering if one could determine the type of a
> PyObject
>
> Example : calling from python
>
> Mod.Function( 1234 )
> Mod.Function( "string" );
>
> So Function should be callable with 2 different types (kind of
> overloading)
>
> in C  (Making abstraction of a lot of other stuff )
>
> Mod_Function( PyObject *self, PyObject *args )  {
>
>           PyObject * FirstArg;
>
>            if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "o", &FirstArg ))
>                return NULL;
>
>           /* And then something like */
>
>           if( Py_GetType( FirstArg ) == String ) {
>               char * String;
>               PyArg_ParseTuple( args, "s", &String );
>           } else if ( Py_GetType( FirstArg ) == Integer ) {
>               long IVal;
>               PyArg_ParseTuple( args, "i", &IVal);
>           } else {
>               return NULL;
>           }
> }
>
> What would be the correct Python Library code to implement the above
> pseudo code

One approach would be the obvious:

Mod_Function( PyObject *self, PyObject *args )  {
  char * String;
  long IVal;
  if (PyArg_ParseTuple( args, "s", &String )) {
    /* do something with String */
  } else if (PyArg_ParseTuple( args, "i", &IVal)) {
    /* do something with IVal */
  } else {
    return NULL;
  }
}


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