[C++-sig] express pointer ownership

[MM]

On 13 August 2015 at 10:24, MM <finjulhich at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have the following class:
>
> class T {
> };
> // T has been exposed to python with class_
>
> and free function:
>
> void add_T( T* );
>
> Ownership of the T* is taken by this C++ function.
>
>
> If I create an instance of the python version of T, how do I "def" the
> add_T function?
>
> def("add_T", add_T)
>
> fails to compile.
>

Apologies. This compiled correctly.

This function:

const T* get_T( const std::string& name );

failed to compile.

so the T pointer is owner by a container in the c++ world, it gets stored
there by add_T,
then the get_T  returns a raw pointer to it. I want to tell python to let
c++ manage it.
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