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Thu Aug 19 17:41:32 CEST 2004 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-August/048076.html

On Thu, Aug 19, 2004, Geoffrey Biggs wrote:
>
> I'm trying to add a new built-in number data type to Python with its own 
> syntax, so I'm working directly with the interpreter rather than 
> creating my own extension module (side note: I've appended something 
> extra to the version thing in the Makefile - I doubt this is relevant to 
> the problem but it's probably best you have all the info). The complex 
> data type is similar to what I'm trying to do so I've been following 
> that as an example. I've successfully extended the tokenizer and the 
> parsenumber() function in compile.c to do what I want and written the 
> data type in my two new files Objects/mynewobject.c and 
> Include/mynewobject.h. I've included mynewobject.h in Python.h and added 
> the two files to the Makefile.
> However, when I tried to run the code by typing in the syntax to produce 
> my data type, Python suffers a segmentation fault. 

Unless you're planning to attempt pushing this into the core at some
point in the future, you're best off asking on comp.lang.python;
although some of the core developers no longer have time for c.l.py,
they're also not likely to answer your questions here, either.  ;-)
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[Python-Dev] Weird errors when adding a new built-in type