I would like to know how classes Aand Bbelow can work polymorphically in python when used std::shared_ptrinstead boost::shared_ptr?
struct A
{
virtual ~A() {}
};
struct B : A
{
B() {}
virtual ~B() {}
};
void f(const std::shared_ptr<A>& ptr)
{}
BOOST_PYTHON_MODULE(test)
{
class_<A, boost::noncopyable>("A", no_init);
class_<B, std::shared_ptr<B>, bases<A>>("B")
.def(init<>());
def("f", f);
}
I know that a method boost::get_pointermust be defined for std::shared_ptr, so I have to make sure that the following lines exist before #include <boost/python.hpp>:
namespace boost {
template<class T> const T* get_pointer(const std::shared_ptr<T>& p)
{
return p.get();
}
template<class T> T* get_pointer(std::shared_ptr<T>& p)
{
return p.get();
}
}
Now, in python, I'm trying:
>>> from test import *
>>> b = B()
>>> f(b)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<console>", line 1, in <module>
ArgumentError: Python argument types in
test.f(B)
did not match C++ signature:
f(std::shared_ptr<A>)
Note. The code above works fine for boost::shared_ptr, but instead, I want to stick with C ++ 11 types.
Thank.
Allan source
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