Hi. I am trying (off and on, because it would be useful, but I am not quite there yet) to find a way to make Boost.Python cooperate with Boost.Variant. I sort of managed to make a variant behave like a value. However, things like modification of a variant inside of a container doesn't work, because the variant is converted from/to python everytime it is accessed. Looking at the Boost.Python docs and code, I think there should be a way to treat a variant like a proxy/reference. The only problem is, that Boost.Python would *know* the C++ type of the referenced object only at runtime. While that shouldn't be a problem for Python, It looks like Boost.Python doesn't support this. But maybe there is some way to still acomplish that, and I have missed it?
boost.variant is common enough that it would be worthwhile to have boost.python support it as best as possible. It took me quite a while to figure out what I have written below, so, in case there is no better solution, maybe we want to add something about variants to the boost.python docs to get people started a little easier? I've written up what I have found so far here: http://blind.guru/boost_python-and-boost_variant.html Any input appreciated. -- CYa, ⡍⠁⠗⠊⠕ _______________________________________________ Cplusplus-sig mailing list Cplusplus-sig@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/cplusplus-sig
