[Pythonmac-SIG] Building Mac extensions for Apple Python

[Tony Lownds]

At 9:37 PM +0100 1/3/03, Jack Jansen wrote:
>PyObject_Del is declared for python 2.2 (in 
>/usr/include/python2.2/objimpl.h) so I really have no idea why it 
>would fail...

I think the problem is that PyObject_Del is defined in python2.2 as a 
macro with arguments:

#define PyObject_Del(op) _PyObject_Del((PyObject *)(op))

So, it can't be used to provide a function pointer for the AEDesc_Type struct.

Fixing that one module isn't hard:

diff -u -r1.18 _AEmodule.c
--- ../Modules/ae/_AEmodule.c   23 Dec 2002 23:16:20 -0000      1.18
+++ ../Modules/ae/_AEmodule.c   6 Jan 2003 04:27:23 -0000
@@ -875,8 +875,10 @@
         return self;
  }

-#define AEDesc_tp_free PyObject_Del
-
+static void AEDesc_tp_free(PyObject *self)
+{
+       PyObject_Del(self);
+}

  PyTypeObject AEDesc_Type = {
         PyObject_HEAD_INIT(NULL)

But aren't those modules generated by something?

-Tony