Dear Gustavo and Mike,
When you have a chance, please have a look at the website: http://www.ncnr.nist.gov/staff/taner/pybindgen/doc_installation_features.htm l Implementing my toy std::vector class to a generic type in pybindgen code turned out to be quite easy! All I had to do is to write a function in module.py which basically does the same thing as add_container but instead returning a container, it also create a std::vector class, add the methods to it and then return the class back to user. In this way, without messing up with the container module or any other pybindgen modules, I was able to combine the container and the stl:vector class with an arbitrary user-defined type!!! Since we now get a class when the container is added, the user can add additional functions as method as well. In the two examples given in the website, I demonstrated this adding sum() and operator== for a complex type for the std:vector. The usage is almost the same as before but instead using add_container, now we have to use stl_add_container. The rest is automatic. Also, thanks to __call__, we can access the vector elements as vec(index). vec() gives the iterable container. Hence list(Vec()) works for python list. Anyway, I created a brief website to explain my approach. I discuss two examples in details. The first one is regular std::vector with double and integer types. The other is std:vector of a custom type! Making this code work for other container would be trivial too. But first, I would like to get some feedback from you guys to see if you like the approach. If you are interested, you can get the modified module.py (which is the same as original but with a new function add_stl_container) at my website. Please have a look at the web site: http://www.ncnr.nist.gov/staff/taner/pybindgen/ Best regards Taner PS: I created the website very quickly using Sphinx. Sorry for the typos or strange behaviors with the web design. I'll fix it later. **************************************************************************** **** Dr. Taner Yildirim, Ph.D. Physicist, Adjunct Associate Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania and Computational and Neutron Science Team Leader, NIST Center for Neutron Research, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 100 Bureau Drive, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-6100. Email: ta...@nist.gov or ta...@seas.upenn.edu PHONE: 301-975-6228 FAX : 301-921-9847 Web : http://webster.ncnr.nist.gov/staff/taner **************************************************************************** **** _____ From: Gustavo Carneiro [mailto:gjcarne...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, June 07, 2009 7:24 PM To: ta...@seas.upenn.edu Cc: J. Michael Owen; cplusplus-sig@python.org Subject: Re: [C++-sig] pybindgen: Why do wrapped C++ containers not look more like python containers? 2009/6/7 Taner Yildirim <ta...@seas.upenn.edu> Dear Gustavo, Thanks for the detailed explanation, which fixed the problem!. As I indicated in my previous email, I am mainly a Fortran programmer and do not have much experience with c++. I used to wrap my programs with F2Py but then decided to do right thing and learn c/c++ and rewrite some of the applications. Thanks to your pybindgen code, the wrapping them for python would be the easiest part!! Back to pybindgen containers, I noticed a strange behavior. I did not check the bug reports. Sorry if this was already reported. I have the following code: mod=Module('tst1') mod.add_include('"tst1.h"') mod.add_container('std::vector<int>', 'int', 'vector',custom_name="std_vec_int") In python, I do this: A=std_vec_int([1,2,3]) B=std_vec_int([1,2,3]) But then A==B returns false??? Similarly, I do c=std_vec_int(a) and then check a==c which returns false!!! Type comparison, like many other things, is not yet implemented in pybindgen. Like I said, you can do a lot of things by simply "casting" in python to a list, i.e. instead of: A=std_vec_int([1,2,3]) do: A=list(std_vec_int([1,2,3])) It's an ugly workaround but it works ok (although the performance isn't great). If I do list(A) and list(B), I get the right list. It looks like "==" not working or I am again missing something very trivial! You are not missing anything, it's just not implemented. Unfortunately Python 2.x has some default comparison function; this is fixed in Python 3.x, which just raises an exception if the comparison operation is not implemented. By the way, this observation is based on pybindgen-0.10.0 and mingw (gcc 4.4.0). Best regards Taner **************************************************************************** **** Dr. Taner Yildirim, Ph.D. Physicist, Adjunct Associate Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania and Computational and Neutron Science Team Leader, NIST Center for Neutron Research, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 100 Bureau Drive, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-6100. Email: ta...@nist.gov or ta...@seas.upenn.edu PHONE: 301-975-6228 FAX : 301-921-9847 Web : http://webster.ncnr.nist.gov/staff/taner **************************************************************************** **** -- Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro INESC Porto, Telecommunications and Multimedia Unit "The universe is always one step beyond logic." -- Frank Herbert
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