[pygccxml-development] __getitem__ / __setitem__

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

Hi,

Py++ turns index operators into a __getitem__() method. Now I was just 
wondering if it should also create a __setitem__() method when there's 
an operator that returns a reference?

I have some cases where this would be desirable (but I don't know if 
it's desirable in every case). For example, the Maya vector classes 
define operators like these:

double& operator[] ( unsigned i );
double operator[] ( unsigned i ) const;

So far, I was ignoring the first one and only wrapped the second one 
which was correctly turned into a __getitem__() method (but of course, 
this meant I couldn't assign values via the index operator).
In this case, the first operator could actually spawn a __setitem__() 
method as well. I have no problems with doing that manually, but I was 
just wondering if this could/should be made an (optional?) builtin 
functionality of Py++ and so I'm just throwing in the idea...

- Matthias -