Jim Bosch wrote:

> On 01/27/2013 05:02 AM, Michael Wild wrote:
>> Hi all
>>
>> Is there a way to apply a CallPolicy to operator definitions? In
>> particular, I'm interested in the inplace operators (+=, -=, *=, /= and
>> friends).
>>
>> To give a bit more context: The library I'm trying to wrap exposes some
>> static const objects. So far, I have been able to wrap modifying
>> function by having a registration facility for these static const
>> objects and a custom CallPolicy that raises an AttributError when one
>> tries to modify one of the registered objects.
>>
>> One option I see is to directly define __iadd__ etc. instead of using
>> the built-in convenience operators. However, I'm not sure whether that
>> has unintended side-effects. I haven't completely understood the
>> operators implementation in bp, but it looks fairly involved.
>>
> 
> I think directly implementing __iadd__ is probably your best bet.  I don't
> think there are any side-effects you need to worry about, but it would
> probably be a lot of boilerplate.  Do make sure you read up on how those
> methods are supposed to be implemented in pure-Python as regards to handling
> unexpected types, however, and make sure you follow the same rules in your C++
> implementation.
> 
> Jim

I've always used e.g. __iadd__ rather than the convenience stuff.  No problems.

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