[C++-sig] Auto-converting to a custom string type?

[Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve]

--- Aaron Bentley <abentley at panoramicfeedback.com> wrote:

> Aaron Bentley wrote:
> > Our library uses a custom unicode string type called 'StringBuffer'.
> > I'd like to be able to auto-convert python unicode objects into
> > StringBuffers, because the alternative (AFAICT) it to wrap every
> > function that takes a StringBuffer parameter.
> 
> Not solved yet, but progress:
> I found Ralf Grosse-Kunstleve's approach, and I got it to work
> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/c++-sig/2002-November/002640.html

This may be a better approach (but I haven't looked at your code very closely):

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/c++-sig/2003-May/004133.html

> So now the problem is that if I construct a StringBuffer from a
> StringBuffer, it tries (and fails) to invoke StringBuffer.encode.  I
> don't really want to support StringBuffer.encode, since repeated
> encodes/decodes are pretty inefficient....

Let us know if the URL above doesn't help.

Cheers,
        Ralf



		
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