How do I create a vanilla object in C?

[sturlamolden]

On 22 Nov, 04:05, Carl Banks <pavlovevide... at gmail.com> wrote:

> name = PyString_FromString("vanilla");
> bases = PyTuple_New(0);
> dict = PyDict_New();
> vanilla_type = PyObject_CallObject(
>         &PyType_Type,name,bases,dict,0);
>
> Then call the vanilla type (however you create it) to get a vanilla
> object:
>
> vanilla_object = PyObject_CallObject(vanilla_type,0);
>
> Definitely not the most straightforward thing to do from C.


It is much easier to do this from Cython.

cdef class foo:
    # fields stored in C struct
    pass

class foo:
    # fields stored in Python dict
    pass

The let the Cython compiler generate the C code you need.

http://docs.cython.org/src/tutorial/cdef_classes.html