Re: [Swig-user] %varargs accepts one more argument than asked for

[William S F. <ws...@fu...>]

On 14/05/11 03:24, Karl Wette wrote:
> Thanks William - using the current SVN checkout, %varargs now produces
> the number of optional arguments I ask for. The new documentation is
> also much clearer on how %varargs works.
>
> I also realised why I wasn't seeing the effect of "compactdefaultargs"
> before - I had enabled "kwargs", which seems to implicitly imply
> "compactdefaultargs" (which makes sense). If this is true, maybe it's
> worth adding a note to the documentation??
>
> BTW it seems there are some typemaps that still refer to the
> VARARGS_SENTINEL argument, in:
> ./Lib/swig.swg
> ./Lib/typemaps/swigtype.swg
> Are they used for anything??
They are a left over from before. These VARARGS_SENTINEL typemaps were 
not working for the documented example. I've updated the doc again with 
a technique using numinputs=0 in the 'in' typemap to ensure a sentinel 
is passed when using compactdefaultargs.

William