[capi-sig] Easy way to Return Value from 1 line of Embedded Python?

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Jerry Krinock wrote:
> 
> On 2010 May 28, at 01:54, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> 
>> You can compile the code into code object using Py_CompileString()
>> and then pass this to PyEval_EvalCode() for execution. This
>> will evaluate the code and return the resulting Python object.
> 
> Thank you, Mark-Andre.  I had trouble getting that to work.  Let's move on to your preferred answer.
> 
>> In your case, it's probably easier to just load the pickle
>> module from C and call the loads() function directly rather
>> than going through an extra layer of Python code.
> 
> I'm not sure if you meant to use PyFunction_New() or PyRun_String().  I got it to work using the latter.  See code below.

I was thinking of PyImport_ImportModule() to import the pickle module,
PyModule_GetDict() and PyDict_GetItemString() to get the function
object and finally PyEval_CallFunction() to call the function.

You can also use a short-cut directly from the module object
to the function call by using PyEval_CallMethod(pickle_module,
"loads", ...) - top-level symbols in a module are available
as attributes of the module object, e.g.

pickle_module = PyImport_ImportModule("pickle");
result = PyEval_CallMethod(pickle_module, "loads", "s#", ...);

This avoids having to compile any Python code just to unpickle
a string.

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