Hi all. I'm writing a module to proxy C++ objects into Python for a large C++ application. There are hundreds of thousands of C++ objects, some of which are temporary while others are very long lived.
Currently every time one of these objects is accessed from Python, a new "myproxy" instance is created. So if I were to access the same field of an object twice, I would receive two python objects proxying the same underlying C++ object. This messes up "id" and "is", and is causing me issues when, for example, I run into circular references when enoding json or otherwise attempt to determine whether two proxy objects refer to the same C++ object. I can't see how to cache the "myproxy" objects instead of returning new instances - due to the architecture of the C++ application, there's no weak reference support at all, and the number of objects is very large. My current plan would be for me to override the id builtin to return the underlying C++ object instance pointer instead of the PyObject instance pointer in the case of the "myproxy" object type, probably using a new type method slot tp_id or similar. The old behaviour would be unchanged for all other types, naturally. I'd also need to alter ceval.c to use builtin_id instead of the raw pointer for comparison when using PyCmp_IS and PyCmp_IS_NOT. I can see that there could very well be many other sites throughout the C source where the pointer was directly compared, and would cause interesting issues for me down the line. I'm just not sure what else to try. I'd like to know if I'm being laughably naive or not before I went about this plan, and whether it'd be worthwhile contributing the patch back, considering the number of potentially overridden-id-unaware areas throught the rest of the python source base. Thanks. Tom. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
