Andreas Otto writes: > I'm writing a native language binding for a library. > > http://libmsgque.sourceforge.net/ > > Every native method called by PYTHON have to return > a PyObject* even if the function itself does not > return anything. > [...] > Question: what is the best return statement for a "void" function ?
Hmmm, this sounds like your goal is to write an exact 1:1 wrapper of the C library API (for which there are tools like SWIG&friends). If the library happens to have a rather unusual, close-to object oriented, high-level C API, that might work. Otherwise, you might want to try to wrap it in a more Pythonic look&feel style, that wraps operations and use-cases rather than plain functions. That should make it easier to hide things like memory allocation and other C implementation details from users, and will generally increase the performance of your binding, as it will require less calls for larger operations in C space. Stefan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
