/* example/example13.cpp -- keep_alive modifier (pybind11's version of Boost.Python's with_custodian_and_ward / with_custodian_and_ward_postcall) Copyright (c) 2015 Wenzel Jakob All rights reserved. Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be found in the LICENSE file. */ #include "example.h" class Child { public: Child() { std::cout << "Allocating child." << std::endl; } ~Child() { std::cout << "Releasing child." << std::endl; } }; class Parent { public: Parent() { std::cout << "Allocating parent." << std::endl; } ~Parent() { std::cout << "Releasing parent." << std::endl; } void addChild(Child *) { } Child *returnChild() { return new Child(); } }; void init_ex13(py::module &m) { py::class_(m, "Parent") .def(py::init<>()) .def("addChild", &Parent::addChild) .def("addChildKeepAlive", &Parent::addChild, py::keep_alive<1, 2>()) .def("returnChild", &Parent::returnChild) .def("returnChildKeepAlive", &Parent::returnChild, py::keep_alive<1, 0>()); py::class_(m, "Child") .def(py::init<>()); }