Re: [boost] BPL: wstring

From: David Abrahams (abrahams_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-03-01 21:08:53

Mark,

your additions are completely appropriate; I have been meaning to fold this
fix into the distribution for some time now. Would you mind sending me a
patch? Ideally, it would include additions to
libs/python/test/comprehensive.[cpp,.hpp,.py] which exercise the new code.

Thanks,
Dave
----- Original Message -----
From: <limberm_at_[hidden]>
To: <boost_at_[hidden]>
Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001 11:28 AM
Subject: [boost] BPL: wstring

> Hi All,
>    Please forgive me if this has been discussed, but I couldn't find
> mention of it.
>
>    I have a C++ library I am wrapping that routinely passes
> std::wstrings about.
>
>    BPL didn't compile with just a naive wrapping. So, I changed
> conversions.hpp/cpp to add the functions:
>
> PyObject*       to_python   (const wchar_t* s);
> PyObject*       to_python   (const std::wstring& s);
>
> const wchar_t*  from_python (PyObject*, boost::python::type<const
> wchar_t*>);
> std::wstring    from_python (PyObject*,
> boost::python::type<std::wstring>);
> std::wstring    from_python (PyObject*, boost::python::type<const
> std::wstring&>);
>
> Now it seems to work.
>
> I suppose my alternative was to write wrapper functions that converted
> from wstrings to strings, and just use these wrt boost, but I try to
> avoid work whenever I can.
>
> Are my above additions to conversions.* necessary?  Or am I (most
> likely) out to lunch?
>
> Thanks,
> mark
>
>
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