Re: [pygccxml-development] special functions/operators

[Matthias B. <ba...@ir...>]

Neal Becker wrote:
>> root.Class("X").cdef("__iadd__", "addAssign", return_self())
> 
> One of the really cool things about boost::python is that you can not only 
> wrap c++ classes, but synthesize new functionality.  Specifically, you can 
> make python classes that don't have c++ equivalents, or add features to 
> python classes that don't exist in the c++ class.
> 
> We can indeed use cdef for this, but it's rather low level.  I wonder if we 
> can make a better api for this, maybe something like:
> 
> add_method (...)

Can you elaborate on the '...'? (as this is the interesting part) How 
would you like the API to look like?

- Matthias -