Problem Calling Python callbacks from C

[tegbert]

Oops.  Looks like it works fine and my error was elsewhere. --Tim

> On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, Michael Hudson wrote:
>
> Tim Egbert <tegbert at abl.med.utah.edu> writes:
> 
> > I'm able to call a Python callback _function_ from C code by following the      
> > information in "Extending and Embedding the Python Interpreter," section
> > 1.6, but I can't get the callback to work if I'm calling a Python object
> > _method_.  Does anyone know how to do that?
> > 
> > In other words, it works if I'm using a Python function such as:
> >    
> >     def callback_func(i):
> >         print i
> > 
> > and I set "callback_func" as the callback but not if the callback is an
> > object method such as:
> > 
> >     class callbackClass:
> >         def callback_method(self,i):
> >             print i
> >     cbc=callbackClass()
> > 
> > and I set the callback as "cbc.callback_method".
> > 
> > I'm using the "PyEval_CallObject(callback,arglist)" function in my C code
> > to make the callback.
> 
> That ought to work.
> 
> > I assume the problem has to do with not having the "self" argument
> > available in the arglist for the callback method, but I haven't been
> > able to find any documentation on how to provide "self" or what
> > Python function to use for calling an object method.
> 
> Well, I'm afraid I haven't bought my telepathy upgrade for 2002, so
> you'd better
> 
> a) post some more code
> b) tell us exactly what goes wrong
> 
> Cheers,
> M.