[python-win32] Embedding and Extending Python within one C++ dll, on Windows.

[Richard Kerry]

I wonder if someone can provide me with some advice, or guide me to resources where I can find this information.

I am trying to embed Python in a C++ class, and also extend it with code in that class, or more accurately with code in a base class of that class.
This is in Windows, so it's all in one DLL.

My class represents the actions for a graphical control panel.  This we refer to as the Script file and it has previously been written in C++.  The class has a base class which contains some useful member functions for the Script to call to carry out its actions.
As I've said, this is currently in C++.  The class is created, and its constructor creates the graphical part of the control panel.  When the user pushes buttons on the graphical panel, calls are generated to a ButtonPush handler in the C++ class.  This is written using simple C++ and calls functions in its own base class to perform actions.
What I want to do is to be able to implement the ButtonPush handler in Python.
I've embedded a Python interpreter in the class, and I can get it to import another dll.  But I already have the functions I want in this class, in this dll.  Ie I want it to call straight back into this class (ie this dll), not load another.  
It seems I might be wanting to perform the actions of an import, but on the contents of my class (or my base class), rather than a newly read dll.

Can I do this ?
Is there any extra documentation I might have missed ?  (Python ext.pdf goes into writing the Extensions in a dll and importing it, which I don't think is what I want).


Uncertainly,
Richard.


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