On Thu, Aug 19, 2004, Geoffrey Biggs wrote:
I'm trying to add a new built-in number data type to Python with its own syntax, so I'm working directly with the interpreter rather than creating my own extension module (side note: I've appended something extra to the version thing in the Makefile - I doubt this is relevant to the problem but it's probably best you have all the info). The complex data type is similar to what I'm trying to do so I've been following that as an example. I've successfully extended the tokenizer and the parsenumber() function in compile.c to do what I want and written the data type in my two new files Objects/mynewobject.c and Include/mynewobject.h. I've included mynewobject.h in Python.h and added the two files to the Makefile. However, when I tried to run the code by typing in the syntax to produce my data type, Python suffers a segmentation fault.
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