[C++-sig] boost.python: when does python call c++ destructors?

[Stefan Seefeld]

Sebastian Walter wrote:
> Ok, I figured out what I have been missing. Actually it are two things
> 
> 1) C++ automatically defines a standard copy constructor when it is not 
> manually defined.

Right.

> 2)In Python the expression  "c = a*b" first computes a*b where a temporary 
> object tmp is created. But instead of using this tmp object and give it the 
> name c, Python does the following:
> The copy constructor with tmp as argument is called and this new copy 
> is "given the name" c.

This is not quite accurate. Python doesn't know about temporaries and 
copy-construction, as it always uses references.
It is your own definition of operator* that requires the temporary.

Regards,
		Stefan

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