[C++-sig] Can't convert to unsigned int

[David Abrahams]

Mark Russell <mrussell8081 at pacbell.net> writes:

> David,
>
> Thanks for your reply--the approach I have taken to work around this case is
> to create a python extension object called flag.  This object simply stores
> the long value I want to set.  On the boost side I use an lvalue_from_ptype
> converter to retrieve the value.  This works just fine so I will continue to
> use this approach.  --Mark

I guess I don't see how that helps.  Don't you eventually need a
Python integer type somewhere?

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