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Novin Shahroudi
Novin Shahroudi

Reputation: 680

Pass C++ object contained in a smart pointer to Python

I have a class in C++.
I create an object from this class in my C++ code. I want this object to be accessible in Python. I use boost::shared_ptr to keep the object address.

I've checked out some posts about this but wasn't very helpful. I think the best way is to make an object in Python namespace after interpreter initialization and then assign my boost shared_ptr to the created object in Python.

I've wrapped my class using BOOST_PYTHON_MODULE in cpp and tested some ways like namespace["my_module_name_in_python"] = class<"my_class">... to be able to create an object in python and fill it with the shared_ptr.

In summery my question is how's possible to pass a C++ object contained in a shared_ptr to python.

Thanks in advance

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1519

Answers (1)

Constantinius
Constantinius

Reputation: 35059

This is taken from the official boost python documentation.

Lets say you have a C++ class that looks like this:

class Vec2 {
public:
    Vec2(double, double);
    double length();
    double angle();
};

You can derive the Python interface for it like that:

object py_vec2 = class_<Vec2>("Vec2", init<double, double>())
    .def_readonly("length", &Point::length)
    .def_readonly("angle", &Point::angle)
)

The class definition is now stored in the variable py_vec2. Now I can create an instance of said class with:

object vec_instance = py_vec2(3.0, 4.0);

This instance can now be injected to a Python interpreter. E.g set it into a variable of the "__main__" module:

object main_module = import("__main__");
object main_namespace = main_module.attr("__dict__");

main_namespace["vec_instance"] = vec_instance;

Upvotes: 1

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