Getting module object by name in C extension module

[Ilariu Raducan]

Thank You,
Ilariu
> 
> I haven't written any C extensions for a while, but looking at the
> documentation this seems to be the way to go:
> 
> PyObject * modules = PyImport_GetModuleDict();
> PyObject * module_object = PyDict_GetItemString(modules, "module_name");
> 
> The first line gets the value of sys.modules, and the second line looks up
> the module name in it. Both of those are borrowed references, so you don't
> need to Py_DECREF() them.
> 
> If the module might not have been loaded, you can do this:
> 
> PyObject * module_object = PyImport_Import("module_name");
> 
> but then you have to Py_DECREF() module_object once you're finished.
> 
> Nick
> 
>