Sublassing in C

[Greg Chapman]

On Sat, 14 Aug 2004 15:31:26 +0200, Dennis Kaarsemaker
<spamtrap at kaarsemaker.net> wrote:

>I'm trying to create a subclass of Exception in C, but  cant figure out
>what to use as tp_base in the PyTypeObject struct. Can anybody give me
>directions on where to look or maybe even an answer?

Currently, exceptions have to be old-style classes, so you cannot create a
subclass using the new type-based subclassing.  Instead, you should use
PyErr_NewException, which creates a new Exception subclass with the given name,
base and attributes (despite the first sentence of the documentation, it returns
a new subclass, not a new exception object).

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Greg Chapman