Mailman 3 How do I make a subclass of a C class iterable? - capi-sig

30 Oct 2010

My package has an optional C extension.  Here's an abbreviated version of
what I have:
try:
    from pysistence._persistent_list import PList as BasePList
except ImportError:
    class BasePList(object):
        __slots__ = ['_first', '_rest']
        def __init__(self, first, rest=None):
            self._first = first
            self._rest = rest
        def cons(self, item):
            return self.__class__(item, self)
class PList(BasePList):
    ...
    def __iter__(self):
        ....
    ...
So what I'm basically doing is subclassing a base class (which is defined in
Python or C) and adding an __iter__ method.  This works fine if I don't use
the C extension, but if I do use it I get the following error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File
"/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/timeit.py",
line 297, in main
    x = t.timeit(number)
  File
"/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/timeit.py",
line 193, in timeit
    timing = self.inner(it, self.timer)
  File "<timeit-src>", line 11, in inner
    for i in iter(datalist):
TypeError: 'pysistence.persistent_list.PList' object is not iterable
Is there a way to define the __iter__ method in Python, or am I going to
have to do that in C?