[New-bugs-announce] [issue10943] abitype: Need better support to port C extension modules to the stable C API

[Leo]

New submission from Leo <fhaxbox66 at googlemail.com>:

I tried to port the extension module at http://code.google.com/p/pyhyphen/source/browse/3.x/hnjmodule.c to the stable C API using abitype.py. I gave up after the following exceptions:
- execption raised for missing PyVarObject_HEAD: this could be rixed by deleting a /* */ comment before. I think abitype.py should properly skip comments rather than forcing the user to delete them.
- the xxxmodule.c on which hnjmodule.c is based, defines a PyObject Str_type wherr tp_basicsize is 0 rather than sizeof(XXX). This causes abitype.py to raise a key error as '0' seems to be ignored by abitype.py.

Finally, I suggest to add to the source tree a boiler plate C module conforming to the stable API such as xxxmodule-stable-api.c. This would help creating extensions from scratch.

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components: Extension Modules
messages: 126519
nosy: fhaxbox66 at googlemail.com
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: abitype: Need better support to port C extension modules to the stable C API
type: feature request
versions: Python 3.2

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