[section boost/python/make_function.hpp]

[section Introduction]

make_function() and make_constructor() are the functions used internally by def() and class_<>::def() to produce Python callable objects which wrap C++ functions and member functions.

[endsect]

[section Functions]

``

template <class F>

object make_function(F f)

template <class F, class Policies>

object make_function(F f, Policies const& policies)

template <class F, class Policies, class KeywordsOrSignature>

object make_function(F f, Policies const& policies, KeywordsOrSignature const& ks)

template <class F, class Policies, class Keywords, class Signature>

object make_function(F f, Policies const& policies, Keywords const& kw, Signature const& sig)

``

[variablelist

[[Requires][F is a function pointer or member function pointer type. If policies are supplied, it must be a model of CallPolicies. If kewords are supplied, it must be the result of a keyword-expression specifying no more arguments than the arity of f.]]

[[Effects][Creates a Python callable object which, when called from Python, converts its arguments to C++ and calls f. If F is a pointer-to-member-function type, the target object of the function call (*this) will be taken from the first Python argument, and subsequent Python arguments will be used as the arguments to f.

* If policies are supplied, it will be applied to the function as described here.

* If keywords are supplied, the keywords will be applied in order to the final arguments of the resulting function.

* If Signature is supplied, it should be an instance of an MPL front-extensible sequence representing the function's return type followed by its argument types. Pass a Signature when wrapping function object types whose signatures can't be deduced, or when you wish to override the types which will be passed to the wrapped function. ]]

[[Returns][An instance of object which holds the new Python callable object.]]

[[Caveats][An argument of pointer type may be 0 if None is passed from Python. An argument type which is a constant reference may refer to a temporary which was created from the Python object for just the duration of the call to the wrapped function, for example a std::vector conjured up by the conversion process from a Python list. Use a non-const reference argument when a persistent lvalue is required. ]]

]

``

template <class F>

object make_constructor(F f)

template <class F, class Policies>

object make_constructor(F f, Policies const& policies)

template <class F, class Policies, class KeywordsOrSignature>

object make_constructor(F f, Policies const& policies, KeywordsOrSignature const& ks)

template <class F, class Policies, class Keywords, class Signature>

object make_constructor(F f, Policies const& policies, Keywords const& kw, Signature const& sig)

``

[variablelist

[[Requires][F is a function pointer type. If policies are supplied, it must be a model of CallPolicies. If kewords are supplied, it must be the result of a keyword-expression specifying no more arguments than the arity of f.]]

[[Effects][Creates a Python callable object which, when called from Python, converts its arguments to C++ and calls f.]]

[[Returns][An instance of object which holds the new Python callable object.]]

]

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[section Example]

C++ function exposed below returns a callable object wrapping one of two functions.

``

#include <boost/python/make_function.hpp>

#include <boost/python/module.hpp>

char const* foo() { return "foo"; }

char const* bar() { return "bar"; }

using namespace boost::python;

object choose_function(bool selector)

{

if (selector)

return boost::python::make_function(foo);

else

return boost::python::make_function(bar);

}

BOOST_PYTHON_MODULE(make_function_test)

{

def("choose_function", choose_function);

}

``

It can be used this way in Python:

``

>>> from make_function_test import *

>>> f = choose_function(1)

>>> g = choose_function(0)

>>> f()

'foo'

>>> g()

'bar'

``

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