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- <span class="emphasis"><em>Niall Douglas provides these notes:</em></span>
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- If you define custom converters similar to the ones shown above the <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">def_readonly</span><span class="special">()</span></code>
- and <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">def_readwrite</span><span class="special">()</span></code>
- member functions provided by <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">boost</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">python</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">class_</span></code>
- for direct access to your member data will not work as expected. This is
- because <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">def_readonly</span><span class="special">(</span><span class="string">"bar"</span><span class="special">,&</span><span class="identifier">foo</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">bar</span><span class="special">)</span></code> is equivalent to:
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- <pre class="programlisting"><span class="special">.</span><span class="identifier">add_property</span><span class="special">(</span><span class="string">"bar"</span><span class="special">,</span> <span class="identifier">make_getter</span><span class="special">(&</span><span class="identifier">foo</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">bar</span><span class="special">,</span> <span class="identifier">return_internal_reference</span><span class="special">()))</span>
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- Similarly, <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">def_readwrite</span><span class="special">(</span><span class="string">"bar"</span><span class="special">,&</span><span class="identifier">foo</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">bar</span><span class="special">)</span></code>
- is equivalent to:
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- <pre class="programlisting"><span class="special">.</span><span class="identifier">add_property</span><span class="special">(</span><span class="string">"bar"</span><span class="special">,</span> <span class="identifier">make_getter</span><span class="special">(&</span><span class="identifier">foo</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">bar</span><span class="special">,</span> <span class="identifier">return_internal_reference</span><span class="special">()),</span>
- <span class="identifier">make_setter</span><span class="special">(&</span><span class="identifier">foo</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">bar</span><span class="special">,</span> <span class="identifier">return_internal_reference</span><span class="special">())</span>
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- In order to define return value policies compatible with the custom conversions
- replace <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">def_readonly</span><span class="special">()</span></code>
- and <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">def_readwrite</span><span class="special">()</span></code>
- by <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">add_property</span><span class="special">()</span></code>.
- E.g.:
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- <pre class="programlisting"><span class="special">.</span><span class="identifier">add_property</span><span class="special">(</span><span class="string">"bar"</span><span class="special">,</span> <span class="identifier">make_getter</span><span class="special">(&</span><span class="identifier">foo</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">bar</span><span class="special">,</span> <span class="identifier">return_value_policy</span><span class="special"><</span><span class="identifier">return_by_value</span><span class="special">>()),</span>
- <span class="identifier">make_setter</span><span class="special">(&</span><span class="identifier">foo</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">bar</span><span class="special">,</span> <span class="identifier">return_value_policy</span><span class="special"><</span><span class="identifier">return_by_value</span><span class="special">>()))</span>
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