Hi Alex, Thanks for the answer. Are there any C defines (for e.g. STRING, BOOLEAN) corresponding to each Python type?
Thanks, -Manas On Jul 16, 9:53 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Martelli) wrote: > MD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Alex, > > Thanks for your reply. It was exactly what I was looking for. Two > > additional questions > > 1) Is there anyway to find out which modules a variable belongs to > > when I have only its name (and its not qualified with the complete > > name like module.varname) > > Loop through all modules in sys.modules and you will find a set (which > may be empty) of modules which happen to have that name as an attribute. > It's a very peculiar thing to do (not clear what you expect to do based > on that information) but not difficult. > > > 2) Is there anyway to find the type of the object in C using something > > like a switch statement? I was looking for something like this > > switch type(object) { > > STRING: "This is a string object"; > > break; > > INTEGER: "This is an integer object"; > > break; > > BOOLEAN: "This is a boolean object"; > > ......... > > ......... > > } > > I don't want to run all the C Py***_Check functions on the object. > > Something like the switch statement above will lead to nice and clean > > code. > > Each Python object, in C, carries a pointer to its type object. Of > course there are unbounded numbers of types, but at least you can get > such information as the type's name and the module if any in which it > may have been defined, essentially like you'd do with type(somobj) if > you were working directly in Python. > > Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list