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author | Hugo Lima <hugo.lima@openbossa.org> | 2009-11-03 20:09:32 -0200 |
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committer | Hugo Lima <hugo.lima@openbossa.org> | 2009-11-03 20:09:32 -0200 |
commit | 2d8b5d3467e34757bf462211e7bbd8e4e1453ac3 (patch) | |
tree | a0d12a16fb5acaf578f7cee542bd000e515c9a92 /doc | |
parent | ec2e6f46ced20a82d886725f146e54e96fedd2ce (diff) |
Added documentation for sequence protocol support in shiboken.
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diff --git a/doc/sequenceprotocol.rst b/doc/sequenceprotocol.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..2ac48588e --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/sequenceprotocol.rst @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +Sequence Protocol +----------------- + +Support for the sequence protocol is achieved adding functions with special names, this is done using the add-function tag. + +The special function names are: + + ============= =============================================== ==================== =================== + Function name Parameters Return type CPython equivalent + ============= =============================================== ==================== =================== + __len__ PyObject* self Py_ssize_t PySequence_Size + __getitem__ PyObject* self, Py_ssize_t _i PyObject* PySequence_GetItem + __setitem__ PyObject* self, Py_ssize_t _i, PyObject* _value int PySequence_SetItem + __contains__ PyObject* self, PyObject* _value int PySequence_Contains + __concat__ PyObject* self, PyObject* _other PyObject* PySequence_Concat + ============= =============================================== ==================== =================== + +You just need to inform the function name to the add-function tag, without any parameter or return type information, when you do it, |project| will create a C function with parameters and return type definied by the table above. + +The function needs to follow the same semantics of the *CPython equivalent* function, the only way to do it is using the inject-code tag. + +A concrete exemple how to add sequence protocol support to a class can be found on shiboken tests, more precisely in the definition of the Str class in ``tests/samplebinding/typesystem_sample.xml``. + + |