Embedding/Extending Python in/with C++: non-static members?

[Nick Craig-Wood]

dmoore <damienlmoore at gmail.com> wrote:
>  I've obviously spent too much time with dynamic languages. The problem
>  with what I'm trying to do is obvious: In C++ you simply can't pass
>  pointers to call a particular instance of a C++ class method so there
>  is no way to initialize the PyMethodDef with class methods instances.

It is possible in theory.  You can do what python does when it makes a
bound method and build a custom function at run time with the instance
and method built in.

How you build that function is tricky - you've basically got to poke
object code onto the heap which implements the method call to that
particular instance.

Looking at this page might give you some ideas

  http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gccint/Trampolines.html

This probably isn't a good approach in reality though as it is very
architecture / compiler dependent!

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