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+ <h1 align="center"><a href="../index.html">Boost.Python</a></h1>
+
+ <h2 align="center">Header &lt;boost/python/implicit.hpp&gt;</h2>
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+ <hr>
+
+ <h2>Contents</h2>
+
+ <dl class="page-index">
+ <dt><a href="#introduction">Introduction</a></dt>
+
+ <dt><a href="#functions">Functions</a></dt>
+
+ <dd>
+ <dl class="page-index">
+ <dt><a href="#implicitly_convertible-spec">Function Template
+ <code>implicitly_convertible</code></a></dt>
+ </dl>
+ </dd>
+
+ <dt><a href="#examples">Example</a></dt>
+ </dl>
+ <hr>
+
+ <h2><a name="introduction"></a>Introduction</h2>
+ <code>implicitly_convertible</code> allows Boost.Python to implicitly
+ take advantage of a C++ implicit or explicit conversion when matching
+ Python objects to C++ argument types.
+
+ <h2><a name="functions"></a>Functions</h2>
+
+ <h3><a name="implicitly_convertible-spec"></a>Function template
+ <code>implicitly_convertible</code></h3>
+<pre>
+template &lt;class Source, class Target&gt;
+void implicitly_convertible();
+</pre>
+
+ <table border="1" summary="implicitly_convertible template parameters">
+ <caption>
+ <b><code>implicitly_convertible</code> template parameters</b><br>
+ </caption>
+
+ <tr>
+ <th>Parameter</th>
+
+ <th>Description</th>
+ </tr>
+
+ <tr>
+ <td><code>Source</code></td>
+
+ <td>The source type of the implicit conversion</td>
+ </tr>
+
+ <tr>
+ <td><code>Target</code></td>
+
+ <td>The target type of the implicit conversion</td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+
+ <dl class="function-semantics">
+ <dt><b>Requires:</b> The declaration <code>Target t(s);</code>, where
+ <code>s</code> is of type <code>Source</code>, is valid.</dt>
+
+ <dt><b>Effects:</b> registers an rvalue <code>from_python</code>
+ converter to <code>Target</code> which can succeed for any
+ <code>PyObject*&nbsp;p</code> iff there exists any registered converter
+ which can produce <code>Source</code> rvalues</dt>
+
+ <dt><b>Rationale:</b> C++ users expect to be able to take advantage of
+ the same sort of interoperability in Python as they do in C++.</dt>
+ </dl>
+
+ <h2><a name="examples"></a>Example</h2>
+
+ <h3>C++ module definition</h3>
+<pre>
+#include &lt;boost/python/class.hpp&gt;
+#include &lt;boost/python/implicit.hpp&gt;
+#include &lt;boost/python/module.hpp&gt;
+
+using namespace boost::python;
+
+struct X
+{
+ X(int x) : v(x) {}
+ operator int() const { return v; }
+ int v;
+};
+
+int x_value(X const&amp; x)
+{
+ return x.v;
+}
+
+X make_x(int n) { return X(n); }
+
+BOOST_PYTHON_MODULE(implicit_ext)
+{
+ def("x_value", x_value);
+ def("make_x", make_x);
+
+ class_&lt;X&gt;("X",
+ init&lt;int&gt;())
+ ;
+
+ implicitly_convertible&lt;X,int&gt;();
+ implicitly_convertible&lt;int,X&gt;();
+}
+</pre>
+
+ <h3>Python code</h3>
+<pre>
+&gt;&gt;&gt; from implicit_ext import *
+&gt;&gt;&gt; x_value(X(42))
+42
+&gt;&gt;&gt; x_value(42)
+42
+&gt;&gt;&gt; x = make_x(X(42))
+&gt;&gt;&gt; x_value(x)
+42
+</pre>
+
+ <p>Revised
+ <!--webbot bot="Timestamp" S-Type="EDITED" S-Format="%d %B, %Y" startspan -->
+ 13 November, 2002
+ <!--webbot bot="Timestamp" endspan i-checksum="39359" -->
+ </p>
+
+ <p><i>&copy; Copyright <a href=
+ "http://www.boost.org/people/dave_abrahams.htm">Dave Abrahams</a> 2002.</i></p>
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