[C++-sig] looking up functions

[Gustavo Carneiro]

2008/11/13 Alan Baljeu <alanbaljeu at yahoo.com>

> I'm reading the Python extension tutorial, and I cannot believe the
> embedding section.  It tells me the only way to call a python function is to
> callout to python to pass back a function object which I then save so I can
> call it when I need to.  This seems ridiculous.  Surely there is a way to
> obtain Python function objects without going through that!  Does somebody
> have a way to ask for a function by name?


PyObject *function_object = PyObject_GetAttrString (PyModule_Import
("modulename"), "function_name");

Leaks a module object reference, but you get the idea...

-- 
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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