[C++-sig] Extracting C++ objects of different types from a Python list

[Craig Finch]

I have run into a problem that I don't know how to solve with
Boost.python, and I can't find the answer online.  I have a list of
objects in Python, and the objects are of different classes.  All the
classes are derived from a common base class, and the classes are
defined in C++ and exposed to Python.  The list of objects is created
in Python, and I would like to get this list into C++, where the the
objects of different types will be handled differently.  I can bring
the list into C++ as a boost::python::list, but then I have to use
extract <type> to get the individual objects from the list.  The
problem is that extract<baseclass> works, but then all of the extracted
objects are the same type.  The information contained in the derived
types is lost.

Is it possible to do this with boost.python?  Should I be thinking of a
 different way to design the code so that I can pass in a list of
objects from a single class?
  
  Sincerely,
       Craig Finch

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