The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
that has been posted to gmane.comp.lib.boost.user as well.

"mghiggins <mghiggins@[...].com> " <mghiggins@[...].com> writes:

>  Excuse my newbiness if this question is too dumb... :)
> 
>  I've built a python extension from a C++ class using boost - it all
>  seems to work fine.
> 
>  However, now another C++ function is receiving a pointer to a PyObject
>  that represents an instance of this "boosted" python class. How do I
>  pick off a pointer to the underlying C++ object from the PyObject
>  pointer?

Boost.Python questions to the c++-sig, please!

  http://www.python.org/sigs/c++-sig/

Your answer:

  void f(PyObject* p)
  {
     handle<>  ph(borrowed(p));
     MyObj* op = extract<MyObj*> (object(ph));
  }

HTH,
Dave

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
www.boost-consulting.com


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