markflorisson / pyextensibletype

Extensible type objects for Python

Often Python extensions needs to communicate things on the ABI level about PyObjects. In essence, one would like more slots in PyTypeObject for a custom purpose (dictionary lookups would be too slow). This tiny library implements a metaclass that can be used for this.

SEP 200 contains more background and API documentation:

https://github.com/numfocus/sep/blob/master/sep200.rst

Contents:

• include/extensibletype.h should be included by any library that wants to implement SEP 200
• demo/ contains (crufty) proof-of-concept and benchmarking code