I am trying to make a simple extension in C that should be able to extend python code . I found that code on https://github.com/munirhossain/py_c_extension
#include <Python.h>
// Function 1: A simple 'hello world' function
static PyObject* helloworld(PyObject* self, PyObject* args)
{
printf("Hello Munir\n");
Py_RETURN_NONE;
return Py_None;
}
// Function 2: A C fibonacci implementation
// this is nothing special and looks exactly
// like a normal C version of fibonacci would look
int Cfib(int n)
{
if (n < 2)
return n;
else
return Cfib(n-1)+Cfib(n-2);
}
// Our Python binding to our C function
// This will take one and only one non-keyword argument
static PyObject* fib(PyObject* self, PyObject* args)
{
// instantiate our `n` value
int n;
// if our `n` value
if(!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "i", &n))
return NULL;
// return our computed fib number
return Py_BuildValue("i", Cfib(n));
}
// Our Module's Function Definition struct
// We require this `NULL` to signal the end of our method
// definition
static PyMethodDef myMethods[] = {
{ "helloworld", helloworld, METH_NOARGS, "Prints Hello Munir" },
{ "fib", fib, METH_VARARGS, "Computes Fibonacci" },
{ NULL, NULL, 0, NULL }
};
// Our Module Definition struct
static struct PyModuleDef myModule = {
PyModuleDef_HEAD_INIT,
"myModule",
"Test Module",
-1,
myMethods
};
// Initializes our module using our above struct
PyMODINIT_FUNC PyInit_myModule(void)
{
return PyModule_Create(&myModule);
}
I would like to modify that code like when I call the helloworld func , like helloworld("max")
it returns Hello max
in C , but idk how can I use PyObject* args
:/
Any ideas how I can do that (in C) ?
You should read the PyArg_ParseTuple
documentation. Basically this should work:
static PyObject* helloworld(PyObject* self, PyObject* args)
{
const char *name;
if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "s", &name)) {
return NULL;
}
printf("Hello %s\n", name);
Py_RETURN_NONE;
}
and you need to change the method definition in the table to
{ "helloworld", helloworld, METH_VARARGS, "Prints Hello <name>" },
naturally, as it now takes arguments. The description s
says that the argument tuple must contain exactly one item and it should be of type str
; it is converted to UTF-8 (each CPython string object can contain a cached copy of the string content in UTF-8 for C use), and a pointer to the first character is stored into the pointer object pointed to by the corresponding argument in the variable argument list (i.e. the &name
- the output value is const char *
, and the corresponding argument must be a pointer to such an object, i.e. const char **
).
If PyArg_ParseTuple
returns a falsy value, it means the conversion failed and a Python exception has been set. We raise the exception on Python side by returning NULL
instead of Py_None
from the function.
Lastly,
return Py_None;
is not correct - you must always increment the reference counter on any such value before returning it - that's what Py_RETURN_NONE
macro does in it - it is functionally equivalent to
Py_INCREF(Py_None);
return Py_None;