[Python-Dev] Help with inotify

[Neal Becker]

"Martin v. Löwis" wrote:


> I see. Python is making up the EISDIR, looking at the stat result.
> In Objects/fileobject.c:dircheck generates the EISDIR error, which
> apparently comes from posix_fdopen, PyFile_FromFile,
> fill_file_fields.
> 
> Python simply does not support file objects which stat(2) as directories.
> 

OK, does python have a C API that would allow me to create a python file
object from my C (C++) code?  Then instead of using python's fdopen I could
just do it myself.