C API: Getting PyObject by name

[Thomas Jollans]

On Thursday 30 September 2010, it occurred to pbienst to exclaim:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm embedding Python in a C app.
> 
> Say I do the following:
> 
>   PyRun_SimpleString("a = 1")
> 
> Is there then a way to get access to the PyObject corresponding to a,
> only making use in C of the fact that it's called "a"?
> 
> I've searched through the API docs, but I couldn't really find what I
> was looking for.

No. Not as such. But you could use PyRun_String, or PyRun_StringFlags. You 
could then access the globals object, but I ask you, why would you want to 
bind the object to a name in the first place? Use the fact that PyRun_String 
returns a reference to the result of an expression!