Re: [pygccxml-development] Iteration over py++ generated maps and vectors

[Roman Y. <rom...@gm...>]

On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 11:06 AM, Vincent Ferries
<vin...@gm...> wrote:
> Yes, the function getNodes is a member function.
>
> Here is a little portion of the source code :
>
> namespace postLib {
>   namespace nastran {
>      class dataBase : public generic::dataBase {
>
>         private :
>            std::map<int,node> nodes ;
>
>         public :
>            dataBase(void) ;
>            ~dataBase(void) ;
>
>         // Accessing "model" member data :
>            std::map<int,node> & getNodes(void) ;
>
>      } ; // class dataBase
>   } // namespace nastran
> } // namespace postLib
>
> I cleaned all that wasn't necessary.
> After getting the node objects from the getNodes function, I need to
> recover them one by one in the map and use them in other functions, be
> able to call their methods too.
> According to me, these items are supposed to live as long as the
> dataBase is exploited.

In this case you use the right call policy  - return_internal_reference

I suggest you to read this document
http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_35_0/libs/python/doc/v2/indexing.html
, which explains how to use "built-in" indexing suite

HTH

-- 
Roman Yakovenko
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