Re: Create GLib.OptionContext from pointer

[Christoph Reiter <reiter christoph gmail com>]

On Sun, Apr 15, 2018 at 3:31 AM, Aleksandr Mezin
<mezin alexander gmail com> wrote:
> I call a non-introspectable function through ctypes. The function
> returns GOptionContext*.
> How can I create a pygobject wrapper (GLib.OptionContext) for it?

You can't really, please open an issue at
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/pygobject/issues and describe your use
case.

> I found this answer on SO, but it's for GObject-derived types only:
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8668333/create-python-object-from-memory-address-using-gi-repository
> Also, it seems to use private interfaces (are they supposed to be kept
> compatible?).

This is the public C interface, which also can be accessed through
ctypes. It will stay compatible but as you can see it's not that easy
to use from within Python.

> I can't find anything for GOptionContext*, even using private
> interface. Most probably, pyg_option_context_new is what I need, but
> it isn't mentioned in any installed header files, and also seems to
> not be called/used anywhere at all (full-text search over pygobject
> sources).