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Re: tp_new, tp_alloc, tp_init

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Michael Hennebry wrote:
> I've been reading about writing extension types in C and am rather
> fuzzy about the relationship between tp_new, tp_alloc and tp_init.
> Most especially, why tp_new? It seems to me that tp_alloc and tp_init
> would be sufficient.

tp_new and tp_init correspond to the Python methods
__new__ and __init__, and they're separated for the
same reasons they are in Python.

tp_alloc is separate because it allows a type to
use a custom memory allocator without disturbing the
rest of the initialisation mechanism.

-- 
Greg

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tp_new, tp_alloc, tp_init Michael Hennebry <egg1nog@gmail.com> - 2011-11-30 09:10 -0800
  Re: tp_new, tp_alloc, tp_init Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2011-12-09 10:33 +1300

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