I think you are going to need to provide some python minimal code as an example of what is not working for you.
-Chris On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 11:39:36AM -0400, Pierre Thibault wrote: > Hello! > > I am currently trying to port a C++ code to python, and I think I am stuck > because of the very different behavior of STL iterators vs python > iterators. What I need to do is a simple arithmetic operations on objects > I don't know. In C++, the method doing that was a template, and all that > was required is that the template class has an iterator conforming to the > STL forward iterator definition. Then, the class would look like: > > template <class H> > class MyClass > { > public: > > MyClass(H& o1, H& o2) : object1(o1), object2(o2) {} > > void compute(); > > private: > H& object1; > H& object2; > > }; > > template <class H> > void MyClass::compute() > { > typedef typename H::iterator I; > > I o1_begin = object1.begin(); > I o2_begin = object2.begin(); > I o1_end = object1.end(); > > for(I io1 = o1_begin, io2 = o2_begin; io1 != o1_end; ++io1, ++io2) > { > // Do something with *io1 and *io2, for instance: > // *io1 += *io2; > } > } > > This is all nice: any object having a forward iterator works in there. > > Then I discovered python and wanted to use all its goodies. I thought it > would be easy to do the same thing but I can't: the iterator mechanism is > read-only, right? So it does no make sense to write: > > io1 = iter(object1) > io2 = iter(object2) > > try: > while 1: > io1.next() += io2.next() > except StopIteration: > pass > > That won't work: > SyntaxError: can't assign to function call > > Here is my question: how could I do that and retain enough generallity? > > Thanks! > > Pierre > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list