// Copyright David Abrahams 2001.

 // Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. (See

 // accompanying file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at

 // http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt)

 #ifndef CLASS_DWA20011214_HPP

 # define CLASS_DWA20011214_HPP

 # include <boost/python/detail/prefix.hpp>

 # include <boost/utility.hpp>

 # include <boost/python/object_core.hpp>

 # include <boost/python/type_id.hpp>

 # include <cstddef>

 namespace boost { namespace python {

 namespace objects { 

 struct BOOST_PYTHON_DECL class_base : python::api::object

 {

     // constructor

     class_base(

         char const* name              // The name of the class

         , std::size_t num_types         // A list of class_ids. The first is the type

         , type_info const*const types    // this is wrapping. The rest are the types of

                                         // any bases.

         , char const* doc = 0           // Docstring, if any.

         );

     // Implementation detail. Hiding this in the private section would

     // require use of template friend declarations.

     void enable_pickling_(bool getstate_manages_dict);

  protected:

     void add_property(

         char const* name, object const& fget, char const* docstr);

     void add_property(char const* name, 

         object const& fget, object const& fset, char const* docstr);

     void add_static_property(char const* name, object const& fget);

     void add_static_property(char const* name, object const& fget, object const& fset);

     // Retrieve the underlying object

     void setattr(char const* name, object const&);

     // Set a special attribute in the class which tells Boost.Python

     // to allocate extra bytes for embedded C++ objects in Python

     // instances.

     void set_instance_size(std::size_t bytes);

     // Set an __init__ function which throws an appropriate exception

     // for abstract classes.

     void def_no_init();

     // Effects:

     //  setattr(self, staticmethod(getattr(self, method_name)))

     void make_method_static(const char *method_name);

 };

 }}} // namespace boost::python::objects

 #endif // CLASS_DWA20011214_HPP