[C++-sig] Retrieving lvalues using custom converters (numpy 1-D converters attached)

[Neal Becker]

Sorry, I'm still confused.  Suppose I have this:

ublas::vector<double> create (int size, double init) {
   return ublas::vector<double> (size, init);
}

With default return value policy, this fails.    We used:
  register_vector_to_python_converters< false, contiguous_vector_to_py,
    default_ublas_array_traits>();

Which does _not_ copy the data and uses PyArray_SimpleNewFromData.  The data is immediately destroyed and the array returned to python is garbage.

It would be nice if the function could return a shared_ptr, which python would manage.  This doesn't seem to work:

boost::shared_ptr<ublas::vector<double> > create (int size, double init) {
  boost::shared_ptr<ublas::vector<double> > u (new ublas::vector<double> (size, init));
  return u;
}

TypeError: No to_python (by-value) converter found for C++ type: boost::shared_ptr<boost::numeric::ublas::vector<double, boost::numeric::ublas::unbounded_array<double, std::allocator<double> > > >

What do you suggest?