[C++-sig] Re: shared_ptr and inheritance

[David Abrahams]

"Brett Calcott" <brett.calcott at paradise.net.nz> writes:

>>
>> > I'm trying to pass a shared_ptr of a derived class into a method that is
>> > expecting a shared_ptr of the base class, and am getting type errors in
>> > python.
>>
>> Are you using the latest CVS state?
>>
>
> Should this magically work now? I thought you had to use :
>
> implicitly_convertible<DerivedPtr, BasePtr>();
>
> in your module def.

Works for me; I just checked in some tests which prove it.

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