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ANNOUNCE: PyBindGen 0.8
by Gustavo Carneiro 10 Mar '22

10 Mar '22

The other day I released PyBindGen 0.8. Main news is that it features a new experimental header file scanner based on pygccxml (i.e., it's similar to py++ in scope, if not in maturity, but does not use boost.pythonunderneath). == What == PyBindGen is a Python module that is geared to generating C/C++ code that binds a C/C++ library for Python. It does so without extensive use of either C++ templates or C pre-processor macros. It has modular handling of C/C++ types, and can be easily extended with Python plugins. The generated code is almost as clean as what a human programmer would write, and does not depend on any library or header files besides Python itself. == Where == https://launchpad.net/pybindgen/ == NEWS == - Support C++ instance attributes through getter/setter methods - Support functions as methods of C++ classes - Support the PyObject* type - Support unsigned int, C strings (char*) (from Mark Lee) - Add basic support for enum types - New experimental automatic module generator based on C/C++ header file scanner and annotations in comments, using pygccxml - Some bug fixes -- Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro INESC Porto, Telecommunications and Multimedia Unit "The universe is always one step beyond logic." -- Frank Herbert

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Passing an object from script to C code
by Gamze Tunali 27 Jan '09

27 Jan '09

Hi, As a beginner, I have a question about passing a class instance from Python script to my C code. What I am doing is basically creating a class in the script: class dbvalue: def __init__(self, index, type): self.id = index # unsigned integer self.type = type # string last_roi = dbvalue(id, type); bmdl_batch.set_input_from_db(1, last_roi); <-------- I would like to call my C function with last_roi and able to recover id and type in the code. The C part is follows: PyObject *set_input_from_db(PyObject* self, PyObject *args) { unsigned input; PyObject *obj; if (!PyArg_ParseArg(args, "iO:set_input_from_db", &input, &obj)) return NULL; .... } I am not sure if PyArg_ParseArg() is the right method to get the object. I used "O:.." to get it but after that, how do I acces index and type fields of the object. Do I create an equivalent class/struct in C code to? Again, all I want is pass the 2 values together in an object and able to recover then in C code. Thanks, Gamze

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Strange Python behaviour after C-Function
by Philipp Heuser 23 Jan '09

23 Jan '09

Hi all, thanks for the numerous replies to my previous questions. Everything in C works fine so far, but there is a very strange behaviour in python after visiting the C-Function. The return value of my C-Function is a list of floats. I can print that list, I can do: a=0 while a<len(list): print list[a] a=a+1 works fine, but if try to do for element in list: print element It does that as well, but as soon as the end of the list is reached, I do get an IndexError: list assignment index is out of range. Surprisingly I do get that as well with any list, where I try to use the for loop after using the C-function. So if I use an arbitrary list like ll=[1,2,3] for l in ll: print l I do get the same error, and I don't before calling the C-function... Does that sound familiar to anybody? Is that caused by one of the decref/incref things? Kind regards Philipp

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Some problem when i use Python C/API to embed python script, need Help......
by zouxianjun 45728 22 Jan '09

22 Jan '09

when the program run as exe, everything goes right, but if i compile the program as a .so lib, use other program to load the .so lib and run, it goes wrong,in the lib i also use PyRun_SimpleString("import base64"); it goes wrong.....my python version is 2.3, i want to know what's the problem...... PyErr_Print() print the error info below: Traceback (most recent call last): File "./myModule111.py", line 3, in ? import base64 File "/usr/lib/python2.3/base64.py", line 7, in ? import binascii ImportError: /usr/lib/python2.3/lib-dynload/binascii.so: undefined symbol: PyExc_TypeError i check the binascii.so, ldd -r binascii.so, this lib really has many undefined symbols include PyExc_TypeError, but the problem is when the program is executable, it can goes fine...... when i compile the program as .so lib, i add -Xlinker -export-dynamic, it doesn't solve the problem......... ****************************************************************************************** This email and its attachments contain confidential information from HUAWEI, which is intended only for the person or entity whose address is listed above. Any use of the information contained here in any way (including, but not limited to, total or partial disclosure, reproduction, or dissemination) by persons other than the intended recipient(s) is prohibited. If you receive this email in error, please notify the sender by phone or email immediately and delete it! *****************************************************************************************

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How to manipulate C table as python list ?
by Marc 19 Jan '09

19 Jan '09

Hi, I would like to use a C program which manipulates table as a python module acting on a list. My C code is the following: int sum(int *tab, int n) { int i, s = 0; for (i=0; i<n; i++) { s += tab[i]; } return s; } Now, I would like to use it as a python module where tab would be a python list. I read some examples in the documentation but the size of the list is always assumed to be known such that one can use PyArg_ParseTuple with a format description for each argument. I would like that my module behave like: a=[1,2,3] b=[2,8,20] print my_module.sum(a) -> 6 print my_module.sum(b) -> 30 My question is: which option should I use with PyArg_ParseTuple? I'm totaly lost with all its option (O, O&, O!, etc) Thx, Marc.

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Py_BuildValue, Array from C to Python
by Philipp Heuser 18 Jan '09

18 Jan '09

Hi all, I am trying to return an array from C to Python. Since it is of variable size, return Py_BuildValue("[f,f,f]", array[0], array[1], array[2]); does not help. How do I do that? Any help is appreciated, kind regards Philipp

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Compiling for multiple versions of libpython2
by Patrick Moore 16 Jan '09

16 Jan '09

Hi all, Currently we have a python/c hybrid which works well and compiles against 2.3 and up nicely, and runs sensibly against all of these, however we still need to compile directly against the correct python library before distribution. The question is, do any of you know a sensible way of compiling and opening the python libraries such that, so long as the end user has at least python2.3 libs (and compatible apis), that it will automagically just run. This is primarily to avoid end users having multiple versions of python on there systems, and to aid us with only having to build and test one exectuable. All suggestions greatly welcomed as we're struggling to find an elegant solution to this. cheers, paddy -- ----------( I am an idiot )---------- paddy ----( )---- yddap Htag.pl 0.0.23

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Getting full traceback text
by Campbell Barton 15 Jan '09

15 Jan '09

recently I have been experimenting with a new api for blender3d, one of the things it needs to be able to do is give python errors (tracebacks) to our own error reporting api. The problem is that Python/C api has no way to get the text that PyErr_Print() prints, as a string. This seems not such an unusual thing for an api to require, after all, many applications dont run with a console to display text. So far I think there are 3 ways to do this. * Create a pipe, open it with fdopen(), then temporarily replace stderr and stdout and call PyErr_Print().... then get the text from that pipe. I havnt tried this yet and I'm not sure if its a good cross platform solution. * Copy and paste Pythons C traceback function into my own function that builds a string rather then printing it. This really isnt an attractive option. * Use pythons traceback module from C (this isnt so bad, but Id prefer not to have core parts of our api relying on *.py modules) Is there some other way to do this? or is anyone currently doing this in their application? Here is the Python 3.x C api code for getting the traceback. -------------------- snip static void pyop_error_report(ReportList *reports) { /* # in python this would be... import traceback string = ' '.join(traceback.format_exc()) */ PyObject *type, *value, *traceback; PyObject *mod; PyObject *ret, *list, *string, *args; /* Save the current exception */ PyErr_Fetch(&type, &value, &traceback); mod = PyImport_ImportModule("traceback"); if (!mod) { /* print some error */ return; } list= PyObject_CallMethod(mod, "format_exception", "OOO", type, value, traceback); string= PyUnicode_FromString("\n"); ret= PyUnicode_Join(string, list); Py_DECREF(list); Py_DECREF(string); BKE_report(reports, RPT_ERROR, _PyUnicode_AsString(ret)); Py_DECREF(ret); PyErr_Clear(); } -------------------- -- - Campbell

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