FILE object in Python3.0 extension modules

[Gabriel Genellina]

En Fri, 29 May 2009 08:48:26 -0300, Benjamin Peterson  
<benjamin at python.org> escribió:

> Joachim Dahl <dahl.joachim <at> gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> How do I perform type checking for such an object in the extension
>> module,
>> and how do I extract a FILE * object from it?  I browsed the C API
>> documentation,  but
>> couldn't find an answer.
>
> You use PyObject_IsInstance to test if the object is an instance of  
> io.IOBase.

But you have to import the io module first, don't you? That's not usually  
necesary for most built in types -- e.g. PyFloat_Check just checks for a  
float object.

-- 
Gabriel Genellina