Re: [boost] [python] extracting a string and a one-length list containing a string

Subject: Re: [boost] [python] extracting a string and a one-length list containing a string
From: Dave Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-03-12 06:35:48

At Thu, 10 Mar 2011 09:33:27 +1100,
Allan Johns wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Given a boost::python object, how can I the difference between that object
> containing a string, or a sequence of length 1 whos zeroeth element is a
> string? Ie:
> 
> "foo"  --vs--  ["foo"]
> 
> bp::extract<std::string> succeeds in both cases.

I'm shocked.  Really?  Can you show the code?

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