Re: Help for public Python extension types.

On Jun 26, 2008, at 8:13 PM, Daehyok Shin wrote:

> Hi. Let me ask about the public Python extension types.
> I created the following files (simplified than actual files) to enable
> both other Pyrex and C programs to access the variable i in the X
> extension type. But, I found the generated header file, test.h, does
> not contain the variable i in its declaration of X.
> Any idea about what's wrong in the files?  Right now, I am using Pyrex
> ver. 0.9.8.4.
> Thanks in advance.
>
> ---- test.pxd ----
> cdef public class X[object x_object, type x_type]:
>     cdef public int i
>
> ---  test.pyx -----
> cimport test
> cdef public class X[object x_object, type x_type]:
>     pass

Here you're declaring a new class called X in your pyx file. What you  
want to do is

     from test cimport X

or

     cimport test # use test.X to refer to the class.

- Robert