Extension programming question (2.2)

[Michael Hudson]

Ken Seehof <kseehof at neuralintegrator.com> writes:

> Well that's what it was doing yesterday, I swear it! :-)  Today, type is
> ni_object.  Hmm, must have something to do with the day of the week.

Probably.

>>  I think you need to set tp_alloc to PyType_GenericAlloc
>>and call that instead:
>>
>>      c_ni_object__object *self =
>>             (c_ni_object__object*)type->tp_alloc(type, 0);
>
> Well, that explains it.  Silly mistake.  BTW, I implemented tp_new instead
> of using PyType_GenericAlloc because I wanted some initialization (deleted
> in  my sample code for simplicity).  Actually as it turns out I can work with
> tp_init instead.

Don't sweat it, there's a lot of new stuff to learn in this area.  I
went poking around the source to be able to answer your question...

Cheers,
M.

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