[Swig-user] Embedding python with SWIG

[Martin C. <ca...@cs...>]

I'm sure this question comes up periodically, but I've been unable to 
find a suitable answer in the archives.

Is it possible to pass swig-wrapped objects created in C/C++ to python? 
As far as I can tell, swig's *_wrap.cxx
keeps things local so called the  _wrap_new* methods by hands doesn't 
return what one would expect.  As
a temporary solution, I've hacked together an abomination where I grab 
my module from python, call the
constructor function, then pull the "this" attribute from the returned 
proxy, cast that to a PySwigObject and finally
grab the pointer ... (uggh).

What I would like to do instead is ...

myclass* myobj = new myclass();
PyObject* newarg = __fancy_method_to_create_swig_wrapped_pyobject(myobj);

Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

many thanks,
Martin