[C++-sig] Howto expose exception classes using boost.python?
Ryan Gallagher
ryan.gallagher at gmail.com
Mon May 8 23:34:37 CEST 2006
David Abrahams <dave <at> boost-consulting.com> writes:
> Officially, it does require that exceptions be derived from
> PyExc_Exception (I don't remember where that's documented), but
> unofficially, you can throw anything :)
>
Does this really work in practice though? (With classes exposed through
Boost.Python at least?)
I was also working on this problem several months back, translating an
exception class I exposed through Boost.Python using class_<> to raise an
instance of the python class. (I had this all wrapped in an exception_<>
wrapper which was nice.) This seemed to work fine if I caught the exact class
type, however, it did not work if I tried to catch a base class or nothing in
the exception list matched the exception that was raised. The python
interpreter would always give me a stack corruption(?) in this case.
(Windows python 2.4.1 I believe.)
Sorry for the total lack of concrete example code. I had also tried many
different approaches on this and don't remember which worked and which
didn't. I'll dig up my old project that I was using for experimenting with
this and post it tomorrow along with the exact error I saw in python.
In the end I think I just wrote a python exception class and translated the
C++ exception to raise it. Not ideal though.
-Ryan
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