[IronPython] [python] Re: Announcement: Project to get someCPython C extensions running under IronPython

[Curt Hagenlocher]

On 10/17/07, Joe Mason <joe at notcharles.ca> wrote:
>
> On 10/17/07, Keith J. Farmer <kfarmer at thuban.org> wrote:
> > Forgive my non-C-ness (it's been a long time since I wrote a native
> module
> > for Python), but aren't you now buying into a major re-implementation of
> all
> > the native Python standard library into C#?
>
> Couldn't the C/C# API just use IronPython objects and methods to
> "implement" the Python standard library?


Yes, that would be the idea.

I think it's best when thinking about the architecture to have a specific
example to refer to.  With that in mind, I'm going to repeat some code I
wrote earlier in the thread (with a few modifications).

 PyObject * ReverseSequence(PyObject * self, PyObject * args)
{
    PyObject * columns;
    if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "O", &columns))
    {
        return NULL;
    }

    if (!PySequence_Check(columns))
    {
        PyErr_SetString(PyExc_ValueError, "must be a sequence");
        return NULL;
    }

    int length = PySequence_Length(columns);
    PyObject * result = PyTuple_New(length);
    for (int i = 0; i < length; i++)
    {
        PyObject * value = PySequence_GetItem(sequence, i);
        // Don't remember if I need to INCREF value
        PySequence_SetItem(result, length - i - 1, value);
    }

    return result;
}

Obviously, this isn't a "real-world" example, but it does show a few
requirements for the compatibility layer.
1) The code expects a sequence.  What kind of data should we be allowed to
pass to it from IronPython?
2) The code returns a "tuple".  How will this tuple be translated into a CLR
object for consumption by IronPython?

--
Curt Hagenlocher
curt at hagenlocher.org
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