[Python-3000] Bytes and unicode conversion in C extensions

[M.-A. Lemburg]

On 2008-08-14 07:10, Jesus Cea wrote:
> M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> | BTW: If you make the database object subclassable, an application
> | could easily implement whatever strategy is needed on top of the
> | bytes-only interface.
> 
> Current pybsddb code don't allow subclassing or adding new attibutes to
> a given instance. I will (probably) work on this for a future pybsddb
> version. Pointers to references to do this kind of magic welcomed :-)

I can't give you a cookbook reference for converting existing
C extensions to subclassable ones, but if you look at e.g.
the code one of the more recently added builtin objects, you
should be able to extract the required details.

It's mostly about getting the constructors right and replacing
the attribute lookup code with getters/setters.

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