embed python: how to call a class' function?

[David Ang]

Hello,

thanks very much for your help. i will seek your code when i get back
to embedding python :)


Dave Kuhlman <dkuhlman at rexx.com> wrote in message news:<bb0lar$4cvv0$1 at ID-139865.news.dfncis.de>...
> David Ang wrote:
> 
> > provide code pls.
> 
> Here is some sample code -- It (1) checks to determine if the
> object (info->contentHandler) has an attribute "characters"; (2)
> creates a buffer of characters; (3) calls the method "characters"
> in the object passing one argument (the character buffer):
> 
>     if ((info->handlers.characters != NULL) &&
>         (PyObject_HasAttrString(info->contentHandler, "characters")))
>     {
>         allocate = 0;
>         if (len < 1024)
>         {
>             pBuf = buf;
>         }
>         else
>         {
>             pBuf = (char *)malloc(len + 1);
>             allocate = 1;
>         } /* if */
>         strncpy(pBuf, ch, len);
>         pBuf[len] = '\0';
>         result = PyObject_CallMethod(info->contentHandler, "characters",
>             "s", pBuf);
>         if (allocate)
>         {
>             free(pBuf);
>         } /* if */
>         if (PyErr_Occurred())
>         {
>             PyErr_Print();
>         } /* if */
>     } /* if */
>  
> > 
> > also, where are the function references for embed python? i can't
> > find it on the docs, ie python library refence etc.,
> 
> See:
> 
>     http://www.python.org/doc/current/ext/ext.html
>     http://www.python.org/doc/current/api/api.html
> 
> And, especially:
> 
>     http://www.python.org/doc/current/api/object.html
> 
> If you really do mean to call a *class* method as opposed to an
> *instance* method, then I believe the above code will still serve
> as a model.  But, the object will be the class itself, not an
> instance of the class.
> 
>   - Dave