[Cython] Accessing the internals of a Python long

[Greg Ewing]

> On Aug 2, 2008, at 7:53 PM, Case Vanhorsen wrote:
> 
>>cdef extern from "longintrepr.h":
>>    cdef struct _longobject:
>>        ...
>>def test(temp = long(0)):
>>    cdef _longobject *l
>>    l = <_longobject *> temp

This is not the way I would recommend going about this.
It's better to use an external extension type. Then
you'll get appropriate type testing instead of assuming
that the object being passes is a long.

-- 
Greg