Wrapping Python - A function wrapping template

[Kirk McDonald]

Daniel Keep wrote:
> Kirk McDonald wrote:
>>This library, as it exists now, is more a proof-of-concept than a useful
>>library, so I'm not quite prepared to release it yet.
>>
> 
> 
> You stole my idea :P
> 
> Seriously, congratulations.  I know I didn't quite get that far.  This
> is fantastic stuff; it won't be long now before we have our own version
> of Boost::Python :)
> 
> Just a few questions:
> 
> * How did you deal with the whole 8-bit with encodings <==> UTF-8 thing?
>  I was seriously considering just forcing everything to go via UTF-16,
> or did you write code to do the transcoding manually?
> 

I haven't. :-) That remains to be done. It just does ASCII at the moment.

> * Do you have any plans on how to wrap the method definition array?  I
> tried using nested templates but D didn't like it :(

My current instinct is to hide the array in the library, and add a "def" 
  function (a la Boost::Python) that knows how to add entries to it. 
Haven't tried this yet, of course.

> 
> In any case, fantastic work.

Thanks!

-Kirk McDonald