Hi Tom,

thank you for clarification. The problem arose, when I wanted to use the method 
from within a *python*block’s  work function. But I understood, that this is 
not possible (a.t.m.), and I will write a C++ clock, which should perform 
better anyways ;-)

Best regards

Stephan Ludwig

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An: Ludwig Stephan (CR/AEH4)
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Betreff: Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Python pass parameter as const *gr_complex?

On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 3:13 AM, Ludwig Stephan (CR/AEH4) 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
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?

Correct.

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?

No. That type is almost never used. What is often used is "const 
std::vector<gr_complex>". But again, this class was designed to be called from 
within a block's work function, so the data structure would have already been a 
"const gr_complex*" (casting the input_items argument).

Tom



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Gesendet: Dienstag, 20. Januar 2015 15:57
An: Ludwig Stephan (CR/AEH4)
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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]<mailto:[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
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