Re: [boost] Re: creating a BPL instance from an existing C++ object.

From: Rainer Deyke (root_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-04-02 01:12:31

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Subject: [boost] Re: creating a BPL instance from an existing C++ object.
> Regarding your dicussion of how to handle wrapped functions that
> return const references.  I would not expect this to be possible: you
> can't return a const value to Python, so there is no appropriate
> behavior for Boost.Python.

Not true from a theoretical point of view: it would be possible to pass
"const" objects to Python through a wrapper objects that reflects the const
interface of the class, causing the objects to be immutable from Python.

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