On 12/01/2014 12:04 PM, Alexey Neyman wrote:
>
> On 12/01/2014 06:17 AM, C. Michael Pilato wrote:
>> Just a quick question, as my bindings knowledge has grown somewhat
>> stale: why do some of the wrapper functions use a format string with
>> the tuple notation (e.g., "(O)") and others not (e.g., "Oss#O&")?
>>
>> I notice that the basic editor wrapping methods have the same
>> disparity. I'm probably overlooking something obvious, but hey, it's
>> Monday, so be gentle.
> It is rather the opposite: the "Oss#O&" implicitly requests a tuple
> packing by virtue of having more than one value to pack.
>
> PyObject_CallMethod (and other similar functions) defer to the
> Py_BuildValue for the description of the format string. The latter
> states that by default, it only builds a tuple if there are two or
> more arguments to be packed; for one argument, it returns just the
> object specified by the format string and for zero arguments, it
> returns None.
>
> I am not sure what it would mean to pass a non-tuple to a callable
> Python object as an argument though; haven't tried it myself.
>
Ah, thanks for the clarification.
FWIW, I took a cruise through your patch, and it all seems consistent
with the rest of our Python wrapping logic. I agree with Bert's
recommendation to commit away and tweak post-facto as needed.
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Received on 2014-12-01 18:29:02 CET