[Swig-user] Question on std::vector processing in python

[Michael F. <mic...@ya...>]

Hello,

I am working on exposing a C++ implementation that makes heavy use of vectors.  
In particular, the implementation has a number for functions that return 
std::vector as in:  


typedef std::vector<DimensionDesc> Dimensions;
const Dimensions& ClientArray::getDimensions() const;

In python I would expect to be able to do:

>>> myvector = myarray.getDimensions()
>>> print myvector[0]

In the above example myarray is returned by another C++ function and the python 
function "help (myarray)" shows that python correctly recognizes myarray as an 
object of type ClientArray with all the methods exposed for use by python. 


Unfortunately, python does not recognize the data returned by getDimensions as a 
vector.   SWIG processes all the relevant .h and .cpp files containing the 
typedef and function definition through %include.  I cannot use vector access 
techniques in python (e.g.  myvector[i] ) against the returned vector. 


My SWIG input contains %include "std_vector.i". 

Suggestions? 

 Mike Fabbri