Thank you Stefan, the typemaps are required, when C++ functions are wrapped that expect arguments which have no direct corresponding type in python, or when standard types have to be interpreted differently.
For example a function void parse_args(int argc, char **argv), which I want to call in python as mymodule.parse_args(["arg1","arg2","arg3"]). The wrapper would have to - count the number of python list items and pass this as argc to the C++ function - allocate and fill a list of char* with the strings from the python list. I need even more complicated conversions that are not provided by boost.python. If it is still unclear, I'll try to give more examples. I know that I'm not expressing things very clear, because I have only a basic knowledge of boost.python. Mihail ________________________________ Von: Stefan Seefeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> An: Development of Python/C++ integration <cplusplus-sig@python.org> Gesendet: Sonntag, den 30. November 2008, 20:29:41 Uhr Betreff: Re: [C++-sig] Pyste,Py++: equivalent of swig typemaps? Mihail Konstantinov wrote: > Hello, > due to limitations of swig I am currently learning Py++ and Pyste (because it > seems currently to be better documented than Py++). > > Does Pyste or Py++ offer typemaps like swig > (http://www.swig.org/Doc1.3/SWIGDocumentation.html#Python_nn53) that allow > any sequence of input arguments to be wrapped to other Python arguments (like > for example ...,int len,char *s,.... to a Python string) in any function > where they appear, even surrounded by other arguments? I'm not entirely sure I understand the question. boost.python provides to-python and from-python converters that seem to be equivalent to the 'typemap' you are referring to. These converters are generated automatically for C++ types you export to python ( http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_37_0/libs/python/doc/tutorial/doc/html/python/exposing.html), so the conversion will happen automatically when you pass such a C++ type to a python function. You may start with reading the boost.python tutorial (http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_37_0/libs/python/doc/tutorial/doc/html/index.html), as it explains this as well as many more features of boost.python. Py++ and Pyste are just tools that generate boost.python wrapper code automatically. HTH, Stefan -- ...ich hab' noch einen Koffer in Berlin... _______________________________________________ Cplusplus-sig mailing list Cplusplus-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/cplusplus-sig _______________________________________________ Cplusplus-sig mailing list Cplusplus-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/cplusplus-sig
