[Swig-user] making std::map<std::string, std::string> visible to python?

[James C. <mr...@gm...>]

Hi I'm wrapping some C++ for python, and using stl::map.

So far I have:

%import stl.i

//%template() std::pair<std::string, std::string>;
//%template(String_StringMap) std::map<std::string, std::string>;

typedef std::map<std::string, std::string> String_StringMap;

class GraphProperty
{
public:
    const  String_StringMap& GetProperties();
....

( I've tried it with and without the %template declarations.  Using
them gives me compile errors when my generated wrapper code is
compiled.)

What happens here is:

d = bright.Graph()
d.GetProperties()
<Swig Object at
_145fd601_p_std__mapTstd__string_std__string_std__lessTstd__string_t_std__allocatorTstd__pairTstd__string_const_std__string_t_t_t>


How do I make this work?
Thanks,
-Jim