[C++-sig] Derivation from Python str
Hans Meine
hans_meine at gmx.net
Wed Sep 29 18:01:43 CEST 2010
Am Mittwoch 29 September 2010, 17:02:57 schrieb Willi Karel:
> I'd like to derive from either Python's built-in 'str' or
> boost::python::str, resulting in a class that provides additional
> methods / member functions / attributes. [...]
AFAIK this is just an unsupported feature of the BPL. I was (and would still
be) interested in the same thing, only with list/dict being the base classes,
but this does not seem to be possible.
From the outside, I would guess/hope that it's not too hard to fix, but having
looked at various parts of boost::python in the past, I don't think that I
will try it myself in the near future.
> Including e.g. boost::python::str in the list of base classes yields a
> run-time error in python: [...]
If it was supported, I would say that this would be the right approach/API.
Have a nice day,
Hans
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