Python Lists -> C arrays?

Sat Nov 4 15:56:48 EST 2000

If you're writing C code, that should be easy.  The algorithm would be to malloc an array of size "len( mylist )".  Then iterate through the list copying the values to the array.  Or perhaps populating the array with pointers to the PyObjects in the list (and maintaining the correct ref count).

-D

On Fri, 03 Nov 2000 16:29:13 Michael Brown wrote:
 | Hi.
 | 
 | I've been looking at the python extension features and noticed that
 | Python has an easy way to convert integer elements in C
 | into a python list using the Py_BuildValue function. Is there an easy
 | way to do this in reverse, say to convert Python lists
 | (not tuples) into C arrays (strings, int, float)?
 | 
 | Thanks.
 | 
 | Mike
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 | Hi.
 | I've been looking at the python extension features and noticed that
 | Python has an easy way to convert integer elements in C
 | into a python list using the Py_BuildValue function.  Is there
 | an easy way to do this in reverse, say to convert Python lists
 | (not tuples) into C arrays (strings, int, float)?
 | Thanks.
 | Mike
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