Extended functions in embedded code

[Ervin Hegedüs]

Hi Chris,

On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 02:05:43AM +1100, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 1:59 AM, Ervin Hegedüs <airween at gmail.com> wrote:
> > no, I have filesystem. I help to contribute a software, which had
> > written in C. The configuration schema is very simple, there are
> > several keywords, but not all required function could be
> > configure with them. Python would be a good choice, but the
> > users aren't programmers in most cases. I just don't want to
> > start the documentation, that
> >
> > "Make a Python script like this:
> >
> > import mymodul
> >
> > ...."
> >
> > and nobody knows, why is it require, because there isn't any
> > module with this name.
> 
> Sounds to me like the easiest way would be to inject into the
> builtins. You should be able to import the builtins module from your C
> code, and then stuff some extra attributes into it; they'll be
> automatically available to the script, same as the "normal" built-in
> names like int, super, and ValueError.

well, sounds good - this solution would be right for me. Could
you show me a good example and/or documentation about this? I've
looked up, but "python extend built-in module" is may be too
simple expression :).


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