just-print-some-crap-in-python-c.md

How to just print some crap in the python C API

How to just print a python object from C for debug purposes.

static const char *repr(PyObject *obj) {
    PyObject* str = PyUnicode_AsEncodedString(PyObject_Repr(obj), "utf-8", "~E~");
    return PyBytes_AS_STRING(str);
}

...

printf("foobar %s\n", repr(some_thing));