Is it possible to raise an exception in the initmodule function of a C extension?

[Martin von Loewis]

Alex <cut_me_out at hotmail.com> writes:

> Is there some way to turn the asserts into python exceptions?  It
> doesn't really matter in this case because the assertions are never
> going to fail (haha); I'm just a little curious.

Sure. Just set an exception, and leave the initialisation. Python will
check with PyErr_Occurred.

Regards,
Martin