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Subject: Re: [PyQt] References returned from C++
From: "Arve Knudsen" <arve.knudsen () gmail ! com>
Date: 2008-06-23 11:19:48
Message-ID: a0d6258d0806230419p1930f421w3c3ed5a2a3961987 () mail ! gmail ! com
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On 6/22/08, Phil Thompson <phil@riverbankcomputing.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Jun 2008 12:53:41 +0200, "Arve Knudsen" <arve.knudsen@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > How does one normally treat references returned by SIP-wrapped C++
> > objects? I just determined a segmentation fault in my program resulted
> > from an object first being obtained as a reference (in the C++ sense)
> > from a C++ method, and then destroyed with the parent object. Does one
> > normally keep in mind that the object dies implicitly with its C++
> > parent, or is there a way to have SIP give you copies rather than
> > borrowed references?
>
>
> I will probably change SIP to make a copy when the reference is const. I
> think this fixes most of the problem areas although it does introduce an
> incompatibility.
>
> For example...
>
> const Status &status = foo->status();
>
> while (!status.finished)
> foo->process();
>
> ...with the planned change a directly translated Python version would no
> longer work. Instead you would have to move the call to status() to be
> inside the loop...
>
> while not foo.status().finished:
> foo.process()
>
> While I don't think there is anything in PyQt that would be affected by
> this, SIP is used for much more than just PyQt.
Thanks Phil, this sounds like a really useful addition to SIP.
Arve
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