create a class instance from C API?

[lallous]

Thanks Carl, that does it!

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Elias

"Carl Banks" <pavlovevidence at gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> On Sep 28, 8:19 am, "lallous" <lall... at lgwm.org> wrote:
>> Hello
>>
>> How to programmatically create a class instance of a given Python class?
>>
>> For example to create a new list there is the PyObject *PyList_New() but
>> suppose the user already defined a class:
>>
>> class X: pass
>>
>> How to create an instance of it from my C extension module?
>
> Same way you'd do it in Python: call it.  Use PyObject_Call or any of
> it's convenient variants.  Example (leaving off all the error-checking
> stuff):
>
> mod = PyImport_ImportModule(modname);
> cls = PyObject_GetAttrStr(mod,classname);
> inst = PyObject_CallFunctionObjArgs(cls,NULL);
>
>
> Carl Banks