[C++-sig] converting python list of strings to char *[]

[Nat Goodspeed]

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> Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2006 7:59 PM
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> I have functions such as
> int run(int argc, char* argv[])
> which needs to be exported to python using Boost.Python.
> 
> How do I pass to the char *argv[] from python?

[Nat] Depending on how many such functions you have, wouldn't it be
simpler to publish thin wrappers? In this case the run() function you
call from Python would be defined to accept a list of Python strings,
and would then construct both arguments for the real run() function from
that list.

If you have many such functions, is it possible that pyplusplus would
generate such wrappers automatically? (I'm not familiar with pyplusplus
beyond the traffic I've seen here over the past few months.)