[C++-sig] wrapping a function that takes a void*

[English, Mark]

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> From: c++-sig-bounces at python.org [mailto:c++-sig-bounces at python.org]On
> Behalf Of Matthew Scouten
> Sent: 12 October 2007 17:19
> To: Development of Python/C++ integration
> Subject: [C++-sig] wrapping a function that takes a void*
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> I am wraping a function that takes a void* as an argument.
Is an opaque pointer what you're looking for ?
http://www.boost.org/libs/python/doc/v2/return_opaque_pointer.html

Note there are some potential bugs in this. The PyTypeObject's name causes a crash I believe but I'm using boost 1.32, Python 2.3.6 so it may have been fixed by now in either of those.
For example using the example code:
>>> import opaque_ext
>>> p = opaque_ext.get()
>>> type(p) #Causes an access violation

Cheers,
mE
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