The new module allows an interface to the interpreter object creation functions. This is for use primarily in marshal-type functions, when a new object needs to be created ``magically'' and not by using the regular creation functions. This module provides a low-level interface to the interpreter, so care must be exercised when using this module. It is possible to supply non-sensical arguments which crash the interpreter when the object is used.
The new module defines the following functions:
| class[, dict]) |
None, a new, empty dictionary is
created for the new instance. Note that there are no guarantees that
the object will be in a consistent state.
| function, instance, class) |
None. function must be
callable.
| code, globals[, name[, argdefs[, closure]]]) |
None. If it is a
string, the function will have the given name, otherwise the function
name will be taken from code.co_name. If
argdefs is given, it must be a tuple and will be used to
determine the default values of parameters. If closure is given,
it must be None or a tuple of cell objects containing objects
to bind to the names in code.co_freevars.
| argcount, nlocals, stacksize, flags, codestring, constants, names, varnames, filename, name, firstlineno, lnotab) |
| name[, doc]) |
| name, baseclasses, dict) |