"Eli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for the answer; I should better explain my problem.
that's always a good idea ;-) > So a solution would be creating 'function 1' which preprocess the input > and calls the original function 1, than do so for any other function. > This works, but there are *lots* of such enteries and I'm trying a > general way of doing so. can you extract a list of all available commands? if so, you can add a call dispatcher to your interface module, and use Python code to generate wrappers for all your commands: # File: mymodule.py import _mymodule # import the C interface class wrapper: def __init__(self, func): self.func = func def __call__(self, *args): # prepare args in a suitable way. e.g args = " ".join(map(str, args)) return _mymodule.callafunction(self.func, args) # get list of function names FUNCTIONS = "myfunc", "yourfunc" # register wrappers for all functions g = globals() for func in FUNCTIONS: g[func] = wrapper(func) >>> import mymodule >>> mymodule.myfunc("hello") DEBUG OUTPUT: myfunc(hello) -> 10 10 if the names are available in some internal structure, you can also add a function that returns a list of function names, so you can do: for func in _mymodule.getfunctionnames(): g[func] = wrapper(func) </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list