socket module

[Skip Montanaro]

    Martin> Is there ANY way to use the socket module from a Python module
    Martin> written in C?

Sure.  Check the C API manual:

    http://www.python.org/doc/api/api.html

especially the sections on importing modules and the object protocol section
(for calling callable objects).

Basically, you'll do just what you'd do from Python:

    import socket
    sock = socket.socket(...)
    sock.connect(...)

Something vaguely like:

    PyObject *sockmodule, *sockfunc, *socket;
    sockmodule = PyImport_Import("socket");
    sockfunc = PyDict_GetItemString(PyModule_GetDict(sockmodule), "socket");
    PyCall_Object(sockfunc, ...);

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