[C++-sig] passing raw pointers of interface impls

[Ben Scott]

David Abrahams wrote:
> Ben Scott <bscott at iastate.edu> writes:
> 
> 
>>I have been quite happily enjoying the ease at which Boost.Python v2
>>has been allowing me to export C++ libraries to Python. Thank you Dave
>>for your excellent work!
>>
>>However, I've gotten stumped on the attached bit of code.  I'm
>>unfortunately getting the ambiguous "bad argument type for built-in
>>operation" TypeError. I've reviewed the tutorial and references
>>(including the last couple months of this list) but am at a loss to
>>explain why c is of the wrong type. Any ideas on the matter would be
>>most helpful.
>>
>>Here's the output of simple.py:
>>Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "./simple.py", line 12, in ?
>>     factory.reg(c)
>>TypeError: bad argument type for built-in operation
>>
>>
>>class CreatorImpl(Creator):
>>   def __init__(self):
> 
> 
> Right here, you need to call Creator.__init__(self) to create the C++
> base class instance.  Of course, you could just leave out the __init__
> function here altogether and let the base __init__ get called.

Yeah, I had tried that, but since Creator is an abstract type it can't 
be instantiated as you are suggesting. This of course causes the 
"RuntimeError: This class cannot be instantiated from Python" error from 
the default __init__ in Creator that BPL defines.

> 
> 
>>      return
>>   def create(self, b):
>>      return A(b)
>>
>>factory = Factory()
>>c = CreatorImpl()
>>factory.reg(c)
>>
>>b = B()
>>a = factory.create(b)
> 
> 


cheers,
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Ben Scott
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bscott at vrac.iastate.edu