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| 26 | <h1 align="center"><a href="../index.html">Boost.Python</a></h1> |
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| 28 | <h2 align="center">Definitions</h2> |
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| 34 | <dl class="definitions"> |
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| 35 | <dt><b><a name="arity">arity</a>:</b> The number of arguments accepted |
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| 36 | by a function or member function. Unless otherwise specified, the |
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| 37 | hidden "<code>this</code>" argument to member functions is not counted |
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| 38 | when specifying arity</dt> |
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| 43 | <dt><b><a name="ntbs">ntbs</a>:</b> Null-Terminated Byte String, or |
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| 44 | `C'-string. C++ string literals are <strong>ntbs</strong>es. An |
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| 45 | <strong>ntbs</strong> must never be null.</dt> |
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| 50 | <dt><b><a name="raise">raise</a>:</b> Exceptions in Python are |
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| 51 | "raised", not "thrown", as they are in C++. When this documentation |
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| 52 | says that some Python exception is "raised" in the context of C++ code, |
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| 53 | it means that the corresponding Python exception is set via the <a |
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| 55 | "http://www.python.org/doc/current/api/exceptionHandling.html">Python/'C' |
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| 56 | API</a>, and <code><a href= |
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| 57 | "errors.html#throw_error_already_set-spec">throw_error_already_set</a>()</code> |
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| 58 | is called.</dt> |
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| 63 | <dt><b><a name="POD">POD</a>:</b> A technical term from the C++ |
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| 64 | standard. Short for "Plain Ol'Data": A POD-struct is an aggregate class |
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| 65 | that has no non-static data members of type pointer to member, |
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| 66 | non-POD-struct, non-POD-union (or array of such types) or reference, |
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| 67 | and has no user-defined copy assign- ment operator and no user-defined |
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| 68 | destructor. Similarly, a POD-union is an aggregate union that has no |
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| 69 | non-static data members of type pointer to member, non-POD-struct, |
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| 70 | non-POD-union (or array of such types) or reference, and has no |
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| 71 | user-defined copy assignment operator and no user-defined destructor. A |
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| 72 | POD class is a class that is either a POD-struct or a POD-union. An |
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| 73 | aggregate is an array or a class (clause 9) with no user-declared |
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| 74 | constructors (12.1), no private or protected non-static data members |
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| 75 | (clause 11), no base classes (clause 10), and no virtual functions |
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| 76 | (10.3).</dt> |
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| 79 | </dd> |
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| 81 | <dt><b><a name="ODR">ODR</a>:</b> The "One Definition |
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| 82 | Rule", which says that any entity in a C++ program must have the same definition in all translation units (object files) which make up a program. |
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| 92 | <p>Revised |
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| 94 | 13 November, 2002 |
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