Python C/API - *arg,**kwds variable argumnents

[mdcb808]

I am writing a C extension with python 2.3.5 and need constructs
similar to python
func(*args, **kwds)
What's a neat way to do that?
I found pyrex has a __Pyx_GetStarArgs -
is there something I'm missing from the regular C/API maybe using one
of the PyArg_Parse.. calls ?

Thanks,
M.

[Raymond L. Buvel]

md*****@gmail.com wrote:

I am writing a C extension with python 2.3.5 and need constructs
similar to python
func(*args, **kwds)
What's a neat way to do that?
I found pyrex has a __Pyx_GetStarArgs -
is there something I'm missing from the regular C/API maybe using one
of the PyArg_Parse.. calls ?

Thanks,
M.

It looks like the PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords API call is what you are
looking for. Documentation is

http://python.org/doc/2.4.2/ext/pars...dKeywords.html

[mdcb808]

I saw that in 2.4, although it's not clear how I can make it work. the
argument char *format and char *keywords[] are fixed there. Does anyone
have a working example?
I'm just wondering if there are plans or already an API/C in python
core similar to __Pyx_GetStarArgs. It seems like a very usefull and
common thing for extensions writer.
pyrex actually does a very neat job, looking at its output is really
instructive. How widespread is this solution? I started my extensions
long ago before realizing such solution existed, and rather stick to a
regular python API, understood this is what pyrex generates -

M.
Raymond L. Buvel wrote:

md*****@gmail.com wrote:

I am writing a C extension with python 2.3.5 and need constructs
similar to python
func(*args, **kwds)
What's a neat way to do that?
I found pyrex has a __Pyx_GetStarArgs -
is there something I'm missing from the regular C/API maybe using one
of the PyArg_Parse.. calls ?

Thanks,
M.

It looks like the PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords API call is what you are
looking for. Documentation is

http://python.org/doc/2.4.2/ext/pars...dKeywords.html

[mdcb808]

essentially I already use PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords, but that seems
to emulate fixed arg list definitions like -
func (x,y,t=0,u=1)

[Fredrik Lundh]

md*****@gmail.com wrote:

I am writing a C extension with python 2.3.5 and need constructs
similar to python
func(*args, **kwds)
What's a neat way to do that?

static PyObject*
myfunc(PyObject* self, PyObject* args, PyObject* kw)
{
... args is a tuple, kw is a dictionary ...
}

static PyMethodDef _functions[] = {
{"myfunc", (PyCFunction) myfunc, METH_VARARGS|METH_KEYWORDS},
{NULL, NULL}
};

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[Carsten Haese]

On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 12:00, md*****@gmail.com wrote:

essentially I already use PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords, but that seems
to emulate fixed arg list definitions like -
func (x,y,t=0,u=1)

It's unclear what you are actually trying to accomplish. My guess is
that you want to implement a function/method that takes any number of
arbitrarily named keyword arguments. If that is the case, you can simply
use the dictionary that is passed to your C function as the third
argument.

Hope this helps,

Carsten.

[mdcb808]

thanks, I get it now.