[C++-sig] wrapping reference to c++ object

March 13, 2003

      hi.

As you might know in the meanwhile, I want to insert references (not 
instances)
of C++ objects into a boost::python::list. I thought that calling

CPPObject cpp_obj;
list.insert(0,handle<>(borrowed(cpp_obj)))

would do the thing. According to the documentation I need to inherit 
from
PyObject:

class CPPObject : public PyObject
{
	// [...]
};

and as soon as I do this, my code is compiled without error, but failed 
in
the constructor of CPPObject. As stated in the Python/C-API, "you never 
declare
an automatic or static variable of type PyObject, only pointer 
variables of
type PyObject* can be declared." So how can the references be stored?

- harold -

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[C++-sig] wrapping reference to c++ object

harold fellermann