Class and Instance Objects — Python documentation
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Class and Instance Objects
Note that the class objects described here represent old-style classes, which will go away in Python 3. When creating new types for extension modules, you will want to work with type objects (section Type Objects).
- type PyClassObject
- The C structure of the objects used to describe built-in classes.
- PyObject *PyClass_Type
- This is the type object for class objects; it is the same object as
types.ClassType
in the Python layer.
- int PyClass_Check(PyObject *o)
- Return true if the object o is a class object, including instances of types derived from the standard class object. Return false in all other cases.
- Return true if klass is a subclass of base. Return false in all other cases.
There are very few functions specific to instance objects.
- PyTypeObject PyInstance_Type
- Type object for class instances.
- int PyInstance_Check(PyObject *obj)
- Return true if obj is an instance.
- Create a new instance of a specific class. The parameters arg and kw are used as the positional and keyword parameters to the object’s constructor.
- Create a new instance of a specific class without calling its constructor. class is the class of new object. The dict parameter will be used as the object’s __dict__; if NULL, a new dictionary will be created for the instance.