[C++-sig] Returning a simple char *

[Nicolas Lelong]

IMO, the easiest route would be to wrap the member functions :

namespace {

std::string video_getDeviceName_wrapped(int deviceID)
{
   char* name = videoInput::getDeviceName(devideID);
   std::string result(name);
   // free 'name' memory if needed
   return result;
}

}

and then ::

using namespace boost::python;
BOOST_PYTHON_MODULE(pyVideoInput)
{
    class_<videoInput>("videoInput")
        .def("getDeviceName", &video_getDeviceName_wrapped)
        .staticmethod("getDeviceName")
        ;
}

and you should be done.