Added _xdr module

Modules/Setup.in

@@ -134,6 +134,7 @@ errno errnomodule.c	# posix (UNIX) errno values
 #dbm dbmmodule.c 	# dbm(3) may require -lndbm or similar
 #nis nismodule.c 	# Sun yellow pages -- not everywhere
 #termios termios.c	# Steen Lumholt's termios module
+#_xdr xdrmodule.c # -lnsl # Helper for xdrlib.py
 
 
 # Multimedia modules -- on by default.

Modules/_xdrmodule.c

+/* This module exports part of the C API to the XDR routines into Python.
+ * XDR is Sun's eXternal Data Representation, as described in RFC 1014.  This
+ * module is used by xdrlib.py to support the float and double data types
+ * which are too much of a pain to support in Python directly.  It is
+ * not required by xdrlib.py -- when not available, these types aren't
+ * supported at the Python layer.  Note that representations that can be
+ * implemented solely in Python, are *not* reproduced here.
+ *
+ * Module version number: 1.0
+ *
+ * See xdrlib.py for usage notes.
+ *
+ * Note: this has so far, only been tested on Solaris 2.5 and SGI IRIX 5.3.
+ * On these systems, you will need to link with -lnsl for these
+ * symbols to be defined.
+ */
+
+#include "Python.h"
+
+#include <netconfig.h>
+#include <rpc/rpc.h>
+#include <rpc/xdr.h>
+
+static PyObject* xdr_error;
+
+
+
+static PyObject*
+pack_float(self, args)
+	PyObject* self;
+	PyObject* args;
+{
+    XDR xdr;
+    float value;
+    union {                                  /* guarantees proper alignment */
+        long dummy;
+        char buffer[4];
+    } addr;
+    PyObject* rtn = NULL;
+
+    if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "f", &value))
+        return NULL;
+
+    xdrmem_create(&xdr, addr.buffer, 4, XDR_ENCODE);
+    if (xdr_float(&xdr, &value))
+        rtn = PyString_FromStringAndSize(addr.buffer, 4);
+    else
+        PyErr_SetString(xdr_error, "conversion from float failed");
+
+    xdr_destroy(&xdr);
+    return rtn;
+}
+    
+static PyObject*
+pack_double(self, args)
+	PyObject* self;
+	PyObject* args;
+{
+    XDR xdr;
+    double value;
+    union {                                  /* guarantees proper alignment */
+        long dummy;
+        char buffer[8];
+    } addr;
+    PyObject* rtn = NULL;
+
+    if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "d", &value))
+        return NULL;
+
+    xdrmem_create(&xdr, addr.buffer, 8, XDR_ENCODE);
+    if (xdr_double(&xdr, &value))
+        rtn = PyString_FromStringAndSize(addr.buffer, 8);
+    else
+        PyErr_SetString(xdr_error, "conversion from double failed");
+
+    xdr_destroy(&xdr);
+    return rtn;
+}
+
+
+
+static PyObject*
+unpack_float(self, args)
+	PyObject* self;
+	PyObject* args;
+{
+    XDR xdr;
+    float value;
+    char* string;
+    int strlen;
+    PyObject* rtn = NULL;
+
+    if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "s#", &string, &strlen))
+        return NULL;
+
+    if (strlen != 4) {
+        PyErr_SetString(PyExc_ValueError, "4 byte string expected");
+        return NULL;
+    }
+
+        /* Python guarantees that the string is 4 byte aligned */
+    xdrmem_create(&xdr, (caddr_t)string, 4, XDR_DECODE);
+    if (xdr_float(&xdr, &value))
+        rtn = Py_BuildValue("f", value);
+    else
+        PyErr_SetString(xdr_error, "conversion to float failed");
+
+    xdr_destroy(&xdr);
+    return rtn;
+}
+
+    
+static PyObject*
+unpack_double(self, args)
+	PyObject* self;
+	PyObject* args;
+{
+    XDR xdr;
+    double value;
+    char* string;
+    int strlen;
+    PyObject* rtn;
+
+    if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "s#", &string, &strlen))
+        return NULL;
+
+    if (strlen != 8) {
+        PyErr_SetString(PyExc_ValueError, "8 byte string expected");
+        return NULL;
+    }
+
+        /* Python guarantees that the string is 4 byte aligned */
+    xdrmem_create(&xdr, (caddr_t)string, 8, XDR_DECODE);
+    if (xdr_double(&xdr, &value))
+        rtn = Py_BuildValue("d", value);
+    else
+        PyErr_SetString(xdr_error, "conversion to double failed");
+
+    xdr_destroy(&xdr);
+    return rtn;
+}
+
+
+
+static struct PyMethodDef
+xdr_methods[] = {
+    {"pack_float",    pack_float,  1},
+    {"pack_double",   pack_double, 1},
+    {"unpack_float",  unpack_float, 1},
+    {"unpack_double", unpack_double, 1},
+    {NULL,          NULL,       0}           /* sentinel */
+};
+
+
+
+void
+init_xdr()
+{
+    PyObject* module;
+    PyObject* dict;
+
+    module = Py_InitModule("_xdr", xdr_methods);
+    dict = PyModule_GetDict(module);
+
+    xdr_error = PyString_FromString("_xdr.error");
+    PyDict_SetItemString(dict, "error", xdr_error);
+}