[SciPy-user] Weave - accessing object data members?

[eric jones]

> Great!  This is enough for my needs, even with a bit of
> typecasting/overloading required.  All I needed was a quick way to get
at
> an arbitrary attribute from an object (whose type I know, so manual
type
> handling is not a problem in this case).

Type casting isn't necessary in some places.  For example:

>>> class bob:
...  pass
...
>>> import weave
>>> q = bob()
>>> q.a  = 1
>>> weave.inline("""
                 int aa = q.attr("a"); 
                 std::cout << aa + 1 <<  std::endl;
                 """,['q'])
2

So, when C++ can figure out the type, it'll do the casting for you.
It's only in places where the type is ambiguous that you must help it
out.

eric