Storing a C pointer in a Python class instance

Wed Sep 30 07:52:38 EDT 2009

Thanks everyone.
Finally, I used Falcolas suggestion and took into consideration 
sturlamolden's comments.
Regards,
Elias
"lallous" <lallous at lgwm.org> wrote in message news:h9sgcn$ivo$1 at aioe.org...
> Hello
>> From my C extension module I want to store a C pointer in a given 
> PyObject.
>> The only way I figure how to do it is to use Py_BuildValues and store the 
> poiner casted to Py_ssize_t, thus:
>> Py_BuildValues("n", (Py_ssize_t)my_ptr)
>> Can it be done differently?
>> Regards,
> Elias