[Python-Dev] PyEval_Call* convenience functions (original) (raw)

Georg Brandl g.brandl at gmx.net
Fri Apr 24 20:59:01 CEST 2009

Tim Lesher schrieb:

Is there a reason that the PyEvalCallFunction() and PyEvalCallMethod() convenience functions remain undocumented? (i.e., would a doc-and-test patch to correct this be rejected?)

I didn't see any mention of this coming up in python-dev before. Also, despite its name, PyEvalCallMethod() is quite useful for calling module-level functions or classes (given that it's just a PyObjectGetAttrString plus the implementation of PyEvalCallFunction). Is there any reason (beyond its undocumented status) to believe this use case would ever be deprecated?

FWIW, there's also PyObject_CallMethod(); all PyObject_Call* variants are documented, but none of the PyEval_Call* functions are. I actually don't know why we have two sets of these, with partially conflicting definitions; perhaps someone else can shed some light?

Georg

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