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 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
