C API -- Two questions

[beginner]

On Jul 27, 1:23 am, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch <bj_... at gmx.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Jul 2007 00:34:22 +0000, beginner wrote:
> > 2) How can I make the arguments less picky without writing a lot of
> > type conversion code? My function really needs a tuple as its
> > argument. For example, f( (1,2,3) ) would work. However, in order to
> > make it easy to use, I am thinking that it should be able to take a
> > list too. In other words, I want f( [1,2,3] ) to work also. I can
> > certainly check for the types in the code and deal with each
> > situation. But remember this is tedious to do in C. Is there any
> > better way to handle this?
>
> The same way as you would do in Python: convert the argument into a tuple
> if you *really* need a tuple, or just use it as sequence or via iterator.
> And pay attention to errors of course.
>
> Ciao,
>         Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch

That makes sense. Thanks.