On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 10:05 PM, <alphons...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes I've read it. Very interesting read. There are other resources too online
> that make it very clear, for instance the wikipedia articles is pretty good.
>
> Though, if anyone would be interested in helping me out further -- though by
> all means, I'm not lazy, I can figure it myself. But, I wanted to pass in
> variables into listsort and watch timsort work line by line in gdb.
>
> listsort(PyListObject *self, PyObject *args, PyObject *kwds)
>
> I've never worked with Cpython source before, but it looks like PyObject is
> just some type of general strut.. I think anyway. How does python represent a
> list of ints in source? and what are the two second arguments for, assuming
> the first is the list strut.
A PyObject* generally references any Python object. The subtype
PyListObject* more specifically references a Python list. The above
signature corresponds to this Python function signature:
def listsort(self, *args, **kwds):
The first argument self is the list object to be operated on. The
second argument args is a Python tuple containing any other positional
arguments that were passed into the method. The third argument kwds
is a Python dict containing any keyword arguments that were passed
into the method.
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