Module Extension C/CPI Question

[Gregory Bond]

Jeremy Moles wrote:

> Or, perhaps, there's even a better way? I'm getting more and more
> experienced with the Python/C API, so I don't need a walk-through or
> anything. :) Just an experienced recommendation...
> 

Better by far to create a new python type in C that has your struct 
inside it and use PyMemberDefs to make those members automagically 
available to Python.   This has the monster advantage that members are 
only converted from C objects to Python objects if they are referenced - 
which is likely to have serious performance advantages if (as seems 
likely with really large data objects) most of the members of most of 
the objects aren't ever referenced.

See the "Embedding & Extending" document, Chapter 2.