Re: [pygccxml-development] __str__ and op<<

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

Allen Bierbaum wrote:
> Does anyone have any code that "automatically" creates a __str__ 
> operator for a class if it has an ostream op<< that can write it out in C++?

For the Maya bindings I manually create __str__ methods and use cdef to 
assign them to the classes (luckily I don't need such a method for every 
class). I don't remember the details but I had some problems when I 
tried to wrap the << operator directly.

As to a fully automatic solution, isn't one of the problems that Py++ 
doesn't take friend functions into account? (or does it meanwhile?)

- Matthias -