Accessing Python variables in an extension module

[MD]

Hi Alex,
   Thanks for your reply. It was exactly what I was looking for. Two
additional questions
1) Is there anyway to find out which modules a variable belongs to
when I have only its name (and its not qualified with the complete
name like module.varname)
2) Is there anyway to find the type of the object in C using something
like a switch statement? I was looking for something like this
   switch type(object) {
      STRING: "This is a string object";
              break;
      INTEGER: "This is an integer object";
              break;
      BOOLEAN: "This is a boolean object";
      .........
      .........
      }
I don't want to run all the C Py***_Check functions on the object.
Something like the switch statement above will lead to nice and clean
code.
Thanks again for your reply.

Regards,
-Manas

On Jul 15, 11:02 pm, al... at mac.com (Alex Martelli) wrote:
> MD <man... at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
>
> >    I would like to access "variables" defined in my Python program in
> > a C module extension for Python. Is this possible? I looked at the
> > Python C API reference but didn't find anything there that could help
> > me.
>
> If they're global variables of a certain module XYZ, your C code may
> "import" XZY (or look it up in the C API equivalent of the sys.modules
> dict) and get those variables as attributes of object XYZ.  Is that what
> you mean by ``variables defined in your Python program''...?
>
> Alex