embedding python in C++

[Alex Martelli]

"Syver Enstad" <syver at NOSPAMcyberwatcher.com> wrote in message
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> "Alex Martelli" <aleaxit at yahoo.com> wrote informatively as usual in
> news:93fgim04oc at news1.newsguy.com...
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> > I don't know what happens if you don't let softspace be set & read
> > (i.e., whether print degrades gracefully or what)
> It seems to degrade gracefully in my experience, which is rather small.

Mine, zero (only time I needed a C-coded Python object to be
set as sys.stdout, I _did_ embue it with a softspace attribute!-).


> >-- note that all
> > Python instance objects ARE 'expando' (Javascript terminology) by
> > defaults, so you don't normally have to do anything special to enable
> > it, but, if you're using your own C-level type rather than a Python
> > implemented instance...
>
> Of course, thats why you don't have to have a softspace member in a py
> object. The caller just tags it onto the object when he needs to.

Just reiterating an important point: this is true for *instances*,
where such after-the-fact tagging is implemented; it may not be for
a typical C-coded type, unless care is taken to let the caller set
(and re-read) arbitrary attributes.


Alex