[Python-Dev] Extending types in C (original) (raw)

[Python-Dev] Extending types in C - help needed

Martin v. Loewis martin@v.loewis.de
Sun, 20 Jan 2002 20:13:22 +0100

This seems to be very close to the reduce idea I posted on this thread a couple of days ago. Why not extend it to fully support this standard Python protocol ?

Because it is not clear, to me, what specifically the semantics of this protocol is. I wrote it to support MacOS calldll. I cannot see applicability beyond this API.

One of the strength of OO and polymorphism is precisely that users can freely extend the protocols that their objects support, without requiring all objects to support the protocol. A standard protocol should be clearly useful cross-platform, for many different types, in different applications.

Regards, Martin