Thank you, Tom, for your enlightening answer. Please let me ask two additional questions:
1) If I understood your explanation correctly, as a consequence of this, one could not use the decision_maker method within a block, which is coded solely in python. Right? 2) Isn't "const gr_complex*" a type, which is used very often in the block I/O interfaces, and shouldn't, thus, the GR configuration of SWIG already let it know how to translate python/complex to gr_complex? Best regards Stephan Ludwig Robert Bosch GmbH Corporate Sector Research & Advance Engineering, Communication Technology (CR/AEH4) Renningen 70465 Stuttgart GERMANY www.bosch.com Tel. +49(711)811-8809 Fax +49(711)811-1052 Mobile +49(172)5630639 [email protected] Registered Office: Stuttgart, Registration Court: Amtsgericht Stuttgart, HRB 14000; Chairman of the Supervisory Board: Franz Fehrenbach; Managing Directors: Dr. Volkmar Denner, Dr. Stefan Asenkerschbaumer, Dr. Rolf Bulander, Dr. Stefan Hartung, Dr. Dirk Hoheisel, Christoph Kübel, Uwe Raschke, Wolf-Henning Scheider, Dr. Werner Struth, Peter Tyroller Von: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Im Auftrag von Tom Rondeau Gesendet: Dienstag, 20. Januar 2015 15:57 An: Ludwig Stephan (CR/AEH4) Cc: [email protected] Betreff: Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Python pass parameter as const *gr_complex? On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 7:57 AM, Ludwig Stephan (CR/AEH4) <[email protected]> wrote: Hi list, I am trying to use the gr::digital::constellation::decision_maker(.) method from python, but I get an error message. In order to reproduce call in python: import gnuradio.digital a = gnuradio.digital.constellation_qpsk() b = complex(1+1j) a.decision_maker(b) => TypeError [..] argument 2 of type ‘gr_complex const*’ The C++-implementation is wrapped by SWIG, where the error occurs. This might be a silly question, but what am I doing wrong? Thanks for any help. Best regards Stephan Ludwig Hi Stephan, You're not doing anything wrong per se, but the block isn't really meant to be used that way. SWIG needs to be told how to handle some types of argument formats, and it hasn't been told how to handle this one. The post 3.7 way we've been handling SWIG is to just include the public .h file as the interface, so all methods are exported into SWIG. A class like this needs that method to be public for use as a contained object in the block that calls it, but it's not really meant for use outside like this. Not that it couldn't be, but you'd have to work with SWIG to let it understand how to call that function with the proper input type. Tom _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio
