Mapping a stdio-FILE to a Python-file

Some time ago, Joachim Saul <saul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Ideally, I would like Pyrex to directly map the file object to a
> FILE, since both are standard types in their respective languages. I
> suspect there is probably a much more "beautiful" way to achieve the
> mapping than explicitly referring to the 'f_fp'. Did I perhaps just
> overlook something really trivial?

One way to do it is this:

  cdef extern from "Python.h":
    FILE *PyFile_AsFile(object) except NULL

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