[C++-sig] vector of shared_ptr ?

[Chad Austin]

I am trying to export a vector of smart pointers to Python using
vector_indexing_suite.  Here is a test case:


// Begin C++ Code
#include <boost/shared_ptr.hpp>
#include <boost/python.hpp>
#include <boost/python/suite/indexing/vector_indexing_suite.hpp>
#include <vector>
using namespace boost;
using namespace boost::python;


class A {
};
typedef shared_ptr<A> APtr;

typedef std::vector<APtr> AList;

BOOST_PYTHON_MODULE(ptrvector) {
    class_<A, APtr>("A")
        ;
    register_ptr_to_python<APtr>();

    class_<AList>("AList")
        .def(vector_indexing_suite<AList>())
        ;
}
// End C++ Code


I would expect the following test case to succeed:

# Begin Python Code
from ptrvector import *
a = AList()
a[:] = [A()]
for b in a:
    print b
# End Python Code

However, I get an error:

$ python test.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "test.py", line 4, in ?
    for b in a:
TypeError: No Python class registered for C++ class boost::shared_ptr<A>


Is this a known bug?  Is there anything I can do to work around or fix this?

Thanks,
Chad