PEP 227 implementation

A cell contains a reference to a single PyObject.  It could be
implemented as a mutable, one-element sequence, but the separate type
has less overhead.

1 files changed, 28 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Include/cellobject.h b/Include/cellobject.h
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+++ b/Include/cellobject.h
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+/* Cell object interface */
+
+#ifndef Py_CELLOBJECT_H
+#define Py_CELLOBJECT_H
+#ifdef __cplusplus
+extern "C" {
+#endif
+
+typedef struct {
+	PyObject_VAR_HEAD
+	PyObject *ob_ref;
+} PyCellObject;
+
+extern DL_IMPORT(PyTypeObject) PyCell_Type;
+
+#define PyCell_Check(op) ((op)->ob_type == &PyCell_Type)
+
+extern DL_IMPORT(PyObject *) PyCell_New(PyObject *);
+extern DL_IMPORT(PyObject *) PyCell_Get(PyObject *);
+extern DL_IMPORT(int) PyCell_Set(PyObject *, PyObject *);
+
+#define PyCell_GET(op) (((PyCellObject *)(op))->ob_ref)
+#define PyCell_SET(op, v) (((PyCellObject *)(op))->ob_ref = v)
+
+#ifdef __cplusplus
+}
+#endif
+#endif /* !Py_TUPLEOBJECT_H */