Python bindings

[Andrew Bennetts]

On Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 12:57:16PM +0200, Armin Bauer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> im working on an application where i also wrote python bindings for.
> Soon i had to set a c variable on a class, so i borrowed some of the
> code from dbus:
> 
[...]
> 
> your approach gave me unpredictable segfaults but i found no other way
[...]
> 
> This fix will probably also get rid of errors like these:
> 
> # FIXME: this is a major major hack. We use this because casting values
> to
> # python objects and returning seemed to be corrupting them. This is a
> "global variable" :-(

I sent a patch to the list a while back to fix this exact problem, but it
apparently had some issues that I haven't had time to investigate.  The
patch can be found here:

    http://freedesktop.org/pipermail/dbus/2004-January/000736.html

My messages contained several examples of trivial ways to segfault the
current code.

-Andrew.