In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Lonnie Princehouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Why did you want to customize "is"? > >Well, mostly out of principle ;-) > >But also because I'm wrapping a C library which passes around C structs >which are wrapped in shim C++ classes for a Boost.Python layer. Boost >Python does a marvelous job of translating between Python and C++ data >types; when a C structure is returned, it magically translates that >structure into a Python wrapper. The problem is that a _new_ Python >wrapper is created every time a pointer is returned, even if a wrapper >already exists for that particular pointer.
Then you need to fix Boost.Python. This cannot and will not get fixed at the Python level -- how can Python possibly know that they are the same objects? -- Aahz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "19. A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing." --Alan Perlis -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
