[C++-sig] wrapped std::vector slice affecting items in a python list

[Babak Khataee]

okay cool. I think that's a reasonable compromise. It should also
(hopefully) make it possible to move away from the indexing suite as well.

thanks for your help!

On 16 August 2011 21:41, Jim Bosch <talljimbo at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 08/16/2011 11:29 AM, Babak Khataee wrote:
>
>> Okay thanks for the info.
>>
>>    Things are also a lot safer if you only wrap vectors as const; it's
>>    exposing the mutators to Python that gets really difficult.
>>
>>
>> Is the const-ness of a wrapped object just a side effect of not exposing
>> methods which modify it or is it due to something else more explicit ?
>>
>
> The former.  It's really only the methods that can invalidate iterators
> (i.e. those that add or remove elements) that you need to worry about.
> Non-const access to individual elements is totally safe on its own.
>
> Jim
>
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