[C++-sig] method chaining in noncopyable derived class

[Buras, Brian]

I'm trying to wrap an API that uses method chaining (methods that return reference to same object) and restricts assignment/copy. Is there a reason I can't use return_internal_reference?

# want to be able to do this in Python
d = myexample.Derived("name")
d.setSomething(500).execute() 

But I get a segfault at return of setSomething()
If I separate the 2 method calls it works.

Here is the API and boost::python wrapper:
enum MODES {A,B};

class Base {
public:
	Base(const string& p);
	virtual ~Base();
	void execute(MODES mode = A);
	
private:
	string pn;
	Base& operator=(const Base& rhs);
	Base(const Base&);
};

class Derived : public Base {
public:
	Derived(const string& p);
	virtual ~Derived();

	Derived& setSomething(int a);
	
private:
	int aa;
};

BOOST_PYTHON_MEMBER_FUNCTION_OVERLOADS(d_o,execute,0,1)
	
BOOST_PYTHON_MODULE(myexample) {

	class_<Base,boost::noncopyable>("Base",no_init);
	class_<Derived, bases<Base>,boost::noncopyable >("Derived",init<string>())
		.def("execute",&Derived::execute,d_o())
		.def("setSomething",&Derived::setSomething, return_internal_reference<>())
		//.def("setSomething",&Derived::setSomething, return_value_policy<reference_existing_object>())
		//.def("setSomething",&Derived::setSomething, return_value_policy<copy_non_const_reference>());
}
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