q#1: in C I want to check if a given PyObject is a xml.dom.minidom.Node (or a derivative). how do i extract a PyTypeObject for such a class?
issue #2 I'm in a situation when i don't really need to extend python with any classes of my own but i do have extra luggage for the python data structures such as tuples, lists, dictionaries, etc on the c++ side. I see no place in PyObject_HEAD where i can stick a void* to my extra data. If i enter a feature request into bugzilla for python do you think it will be well received? #ifdefed of course like the prev/next extras. I'm surprised noone else is using evil twin approach. The reason i'm asking is because while for dictionaries i can stick weak pointer back to my c++ object in a key with an obscure name while in lists this would change the list size and thus is obviously not as easy to "hide" from the client code. a placeholder in a pyobject would've been of help here -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
