[Ficl-developers] output function state?

[Michel P. <mi...@zo...>]

The output function doesn't maintain any state, so I'm not sure how I
can associate an output file (which is a pointer to a python object)
with the output of a Ficl VM.  Here's my code:

typedef struct {
  PyObject_HEAD
  FICL_VM *ficl_vm;
  PyObject *out_file;
} FiclVMObject;

static FiclVMObject *
newFiclVMObject(PyObject *arg)
{
  FiclVMObject *self;
  PyObject *sys;
  PyObject *d;
  PyObject *outf;

  self = PyObject_New(FiclVMObject, &FiclVM_Type);
  if (self == NULL)
    return NULL;

  self->ficl_vm = ficlNewVM(my_system);

  /* Bind the output to sys.stdout */

  sys = PyImport_ImportModule("sys");
  d = PyModule_GetDict(sys);
  outf = PyDict_GetItemString(d, "stdout");
  Py_INCREF(outf);
  self->out_file = outf;

  /* Still need to figure out how to write Ficl output to file */

  return self;
}

This works fine, but I don't see how any output function that is passed
to self->ficl_vm can be told about self->out_file.  Is this what the
FICL_VM->context is for?

-Michel