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Header <boost/python/make_function.hpp>

Contents

Introduction
Functions
make_function
make_constructor
Example

Introduction

make_function() and make_constructor() are the functions used internally by def() and class_<>::def() to produce Python callable objects which wrap C++ functions and member functions.

Functions

template <class F>
object make_function(F f)

template <class F, class Policies>
object make_function(F f, Policies const& policies)

template <class F, class Policies, class KeywordsOrSignature>
object make_function(F f, Policies const& policies, KeywordsOrSignature const& ks)

template <class F, class Policies, class Keywords, class Signature>
object make_function(F f, Policies const& policies, Keywords const& kw, Signature const& sig)
Requires: F is a function pointer or member function pointer type. If policies are supplied, it must be a model of CallPolicies. If kewords are supplied, it must be the result of a keyword-expression specifying no more arguments than the arity of f.
Effects: Creates a Python callable object which, when called from Python, converts its arguments to C++ and calls f. If F is a pointer-to-member-function type, the target object of the function call (*this) will be taken from the first Python argument, and subsequent Python arguments will be used as the arguments to f.
Returns: An instance of object which holds the new Python callable object.
Caveats: An argument of pointer type may be 0 if None is passed from Python. An argument type which is a constant reference may refer to a temporary which was created from the Python object for just the duration of the call to the wrapped function, for example a std::vector conjured up by the conversion process from a Python list. Use a non-const reference argument when a persistent lvalue is required.
template <class F>
object make_constructor(F f)

template <class F, class Policies>
object make_constructor(F f, Policies const& policies)

template <class F, class Policies, class KeywordsOrSignature>
object make_constructor(F f, Policies const& policies, KeywordsOrSignature const& ks)

template <class F, class Policies, class Keywords, class Signature>
object make_constructor(F f, Policies const& policies, Keywords const& kw, Signature const& sig)
Requires: F is a function pointer type. If policies are supplied, it must be a model of CallPolicies. If kewords are supplied, it must be the result of a keyword-expression specifying no more arguments than the arity of f.
Effects: Creates a Python callable object which, when called from Python, converts its arguments to C++ and calls f.
Returns: An instance of object which holds the new Python callable object.

Example

C++ function exposed below returns a callable object wrapping one of two functions.

#include <boost/python/make_function.hpp>
#include <boost/python/module.hpp>

char const* foo() { return "foo"; }
char const* bar() { return "bar"; }

using namespace boost::python;
object choose_function(bool selector)
{
    if (selector)
        return boost::python::make_function(foo);
    else
        return boost::python::make_function(bar);
}

BOOST_PYTHON_MODULE(make_function_test)
{
    def("choose_function", choose_function);
}
It can be used this way in Python:
>>> from make_function_test import *
>>> f = choose_function(1)
>>> g = choose_function(0)
>>> f()
'foo'
>>> g()
'bar'

13 November, 2002

© Copyright Dave Abrahams 2002.