Help needed adding attributes to a C-coded class

[vincent wehren]

Hi folks,


How can I add an attribute to a C-coded class (..using PyClass_New().. .) in
the __init__ method of that class, making it show up in "self.__dic t__" on
the Python side?

IOW, when I have a class called "Screen" in a C-extension that has an
__init__ method that takes a single argument called "name" (apart from
"self" of course), how can I add this as an attribute to the class so that
it equals a "self.name = name" assigment in a pure Python class?

So far my "__init__" method looks something like:


static PyObject *

ex_Screen__init __(PyObject *self, PyObject *args)

{

char *name;

PyObject *selfObject;
if (!PyArg_ParseTu ple(args, "Os", &selfObject, &name))

return NULL;

/*now "name" becomes one of the instances attributes

exposed as instance.__dict __ on Python side..... but how?*/
Py_INCREF(Py_No ne);

return Py_None;

}


Any pointers much appreciated!


Regards,


Vincent Wehren