[Python-Dev] Finding the module from PyTypeObject?

[Nick Bastin]

On Sep 30, 2004, at 7:46 AM, Michael Hudson wrote:

> Nick Bastin <nbastin at opnet.com> writes:
>
>> On Sep 29, 2004, at 4:17 PM, Armin Rigo wrote:
>>
>>> Hello Nick,
>>>
>>> On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 01:24:23PM -0400, Nick Bastin wrote:
>>>> Ok, maybe more appropriately, what do people think of adding a
>>>> PyType_GetModule (PyTypeObject *) which basically functions like
>>>> type_module(PyTypeObject *, void *) (in Objects/typeobject.c) to the
>>>> public C API, rather than having to dig around in the object
>>>> themselves?
>>>
>>> It looks overkill, when you can do instead:
>>>
>>>   PyObject* module_name = PyObject_GetAttrString(type, "__module__");
>>
>> That only works most of the time, I think.  To be honest, I didn't try
>> that, but it doesn't seem that type_module would jump through the
>> hoops it does if that worked all of the time, unless parsing tp_name
>> is legacy code.
>
> Huh?  The code above *winds up* calling type_module!

Doh, nevermind...I missed the getter def.

--
Nick  (::slinks off back under his rock now::)