extending: new type instance

[Michael Hudson]

"BranoZ" <zarnovican at gmail.com> writes:

> I'm writing my own (list-like) type in C. It is implementing
> a Sequence Protocol. In 'sq_slice' method I would like to return
> a new instance of my class/type.
>
> How do I create (and initialize) an instance of a given
> PyTypeObject MyType ?
>
> I have tried to provide (PyObject *)&MyType as 'class' argument to:
>
> PyInstance_New(PyObject *class, PyObject *arg, PyObject *kw)
>
> It failed the PyClass_Check.
>
> I have also found a couple of PyObject_New functions which accept
> PyTypeObject as an argument. They look very low-level and obviously
> don't call __init__. Should I do it myself manualy ?

PyObject_New is the usual way, although there are others --
MyType.tp_new, PyObject_Call ...

Cheers,
mwh

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