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Fredrick,

<p>    Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. 

The only bit of trouble I had was figuring out that I needed to set 'args'

to NULL and use the keyword dictionary parameter instead in the call to

PyInstance_New, i.e.

<pre>PyObject *data = Py_BuildValue("{s:s}", "<name>", "<value>");</pre>

<pre>PyObject *object = PyInstance_New(class_name, NULL, data);</pre>

    It works great!  Thanks again.

<p>Regards,

<p>Bill

<br> 

<p>Fredrik Lundh wrote:

<blockquote TYPE=CITE>bill barrington <bill.barrington@turner.com> wrote:

<br>>     I would like to create a python class instance

using the python/C

<br>> API for eventual return back into "python space".  IOW, I want

to

<br>> accomplish the equivalent of the following python code, but from

within

<br>> an extension:

<br>>

<br>> instance = Class(<whatever>)

<p>start here:

<br><a href="http://www.python.org/doc/current/api/object.html">http://www.python.org/doc/current/api/object.html</a>

<p>and then look at the cPickle.c source code

<br>(see find_class, Instance_New, load_inst, ...).

<p></F>

<p>coming soon:

<br><a href="http://www.pythonware.com/people/fredrik/librarybook.htm">http://www.pythonware.com/people/fredrik/librarybook.htm</a></blockquote>

<pre>-- 

Bill Barrington

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bill.barrington@cnn.com

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