[Boost-users] python bool not C++ bool

14 Oct 2006

      I would very much like to pass bools from python to C++ and have them accepted as bools. However I cannot seem to do this.
My code 

class MyTestClass {
public:
    MyTestClass ():theType("Empty"){}
    MyTestClass(bool theBool):theType("Bool"){}
    MyTestClass(int theInt):theType("Int"){}
    object GetType(){return object(theType);}
    std::string theType;
};

void exportTestClass() {
    class_<MyTestClass> theClass_("TestClass");
    theClass_.def(init<bool>());
    theClass_.def(init<int>());
    theClass_.def("GetType",&MyTestClass::GetType);

}

then the output in python is
...
...
...
a = TestClass(True)
a.GetType()
'Int'
a = TestClass(10)
a.GetType()
'Int'
a = TestClass(bool(True))
a.GetType()
'Int'
I cannot see what I am doing wrong, as I understand from http://mail.python.org/pipermail/c++-sig/2005-September/009503.html  that it should work.
I am using boost 1.33

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[Boost-users] python bool not C++ bool

Nindi Singh