Extension Modules in C

[Jeff Shannon]

Michael Saunders wrote:

> I am trying to wrap an existing C API as an extension module for Python. Some of
> the functions have parameters that are both input and output.

> Can this function be wrapped to have a similar API from python. For instance in
> Pytyon:
>
>     isOk = SomeModule.GetSomeInfo(None, count, size)
>     if isOk:
>          print count, size

The "Pythonic" way of doing this would be:

isOk, count, size = SomeModule.GetSomeInfo(None, count, size)

Actually, it'd be even more Pythonic to drop the isOk return, and raise an exception
if it's *not* okay.

Jeff Shannon
Technician/Programmer
Credit International