[Swig-user] inheritting from a SWIG class

[Dzhelil R. <dz...@gm...>]

Hello,

I am trying to override the __str__ and __repr__ functions of a C struct 
that has been imported into python using swig. Doing it the usual way :

import swig_module

Path (swig_module.Path):
  
    def __init__(self):

    def __str__(self):

    def __repr__(self):


i expected it to work like most other native python modules,
but whenever I print it I don't get the desired results:

 >  path = Path()
 >  print  str(path)
<swig_module.Path; proxy of <Swig Object of type 'Path *' at 0x316f40>

Apparently the swig string representation does not get overwritten.
What am I doing wrong?

I have cheked that the swig version is really a subclass, so it must 
have its methods overriden, doesn't it?

 > issubclass(Path, swig_module.Path)
True


Thanks
D