I've allocated memory in C++ and need to expose a function to Python so that Python can read this memory as a sequence. I've found this example http://pastebin.com/YGi61R4H from this URL http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16232520/how-to-expose-raw-byte-buffers-w... which **looks** like it will do what I need, from the description of the code and the request from the original author. However, it looks incomplete to me. There is no code which defines, or explains what *handle<>* is/does, in this line of code object retval = object(handle<>(py_buf)); I would appreciate some help trying to accomplish this (my statement in the first line of this message). Useful (working) examples of Boost-to-Python code are not easily found outside of Stackoverflow. Thanks Tony