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

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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 ___________________________________________________________ Try the all-new Yahoo! Mail. "The New Version is radically easier to use" – The Wall Street Journal http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html