basic type creation (C->python)

[Michael Hudson]

Dave Marotti <landshark at verticaladdiction.net> writes:

> I was going through the "noddy" example of creating a new type for
> python and ran into some difficulties.
> 
> Everything seems to compile ok (I use "python setup.py build"), but
> when I run python and attempt to import noddy, I get this:
> 
> [landshark at burrito ~/pytype/build/lib.linux-i686-1.5]$ python
> Python 1.5.2 (#1, Apr  3 2002, 18:16:26)  
         ^^^^^

Here's the problem.  PyObject_Del didn't exist in 1.5.2.  You should
have got warnings when compiling.

> Traceback (innermost last):
> File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> ImportError: ./noddy.so: undefined symbol: PyObject_Del
> >>>
> 
> Just as it says, and nm on the noddy.so file shows all Py* methods as
> undefined.  I'm assuming this is normal since they are in the python
> executable... but how do I get around this so I can use the new type?

You could replace the call to PyObject_Del with a call to PyMem_Free,
but better would be to grab the pymemcompat.h header from

http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/python/python/dist/src/Misc/pymemcompat.h?rev=1.2

and #include it into the noddymodule.c source.  The advantage of the
latter is that the code should then work with all versions of Python
from 1.5.2 to 2.3 and hopefully beyond (after a recompile).

Cheers,
M.

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