Defining Python class methods in C

[Bryan]

sjmachin at lexicon.net (John Machin) wrote in message news:<3e7e1f4c.3072417 at news.lexicon.net>...
> On 23 Mar 2003 06:42:26 -0800, belred1 at yahoo.com (Bryan) wrote:
> 
> >thank you both for your help. 
> 
> You're welcome.
> 
> 
> >  i take it from
> >john's posting, that classes are uses to be compatible with older
> >versions of python.
> 
> I don't know where you got that idea, or even what you mean by that.
> In fact there are two kinds of classes, classic and new. See this:
> 
> http://www.python.org/doc/2.2.1/whatsnew/
> 
> Cheers,
> John

hmmm... i don't know where i got that idea either... sorry about that.
 i know the difference between classic and new classes on the python
side.  i'm just not clear from the c side.  are c types equivalent to
python classic classes and c classes equivalent to python new classes?
 anyways, the type was definitely the functionality that i wanted... c
setting of the type object with encapsulated data, sending it to
python which callsback with methods executing in c that can retrieve
the data stored in self.  it was interesting that with types, my self
variable has the correct value.  but when i was using the class style,
self was always NULL and the first value of args was the type.  seems
bizarre to me.  i hope one day someone will write an entire book on
the python c api just like there are several books on java's JNI.

bryan