[C++-sig] Shared_ptr created by python wrapper doesn't know about the python reference?

[Peter Dimov]

Thomas Schipolowski wrote:

[...]

> Please advise me on how to handle this situation correctly. It should
> work the same no matter whether objects are created from python or
> c++.
>
> Regards,
> Thomas.
>
> The test code (sorry, its rather long):

[...]

> class Slave {
> public:
>    Slave(pMaster m): master(m) {

I'm not sure that I understand what Boost.Python is doing when it sees your 
code, but you may want to try to inherit from enable_shared_from_this<> in 
your Master class and change the Slave constructor to:

    explicit Slave( Master const * pm ): master( pm->shared_from_this() )