From 12b4c3efc926d090badf3957061adffc12018ee0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Raoul Gough <RaoulGough@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 18:25:27 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Slice support functions

[SVN r1512]
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 .../python/suite/indexing/slice_handler.hpp   | 97 +++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 97 insertions(+)
 create mode 100755 include/boost/python/suite/indexing/slice_handler.hpp

diff --git a/include/boost/python/suite/indexing/slice_handler.hpp b/include/boost/python/suite/indexing/slice_handler.hpp
new file mode 100755
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+// -*- mode:c++ -*-
+//
+// Header file slice_handler.hpp
+//
+// Copyright (c) 2003 Raoul M. Gough
+//
+// This material is provided "as is", with absolutely no warranty expressed
+// or implied. Any use is at your own risk.
+//
+// Permission to use or copy this material for any purpose is hereby
+// granted without fee, provided the above notices are retained on all
+// copies.  Permission to modify the material and to distribute modified
+// versions is granted, provided the above notices are retained, and a
+// notice that the material was modified is included with the above
+// copyright notice.
+//
+// History
+// =======
+// 2003/ 9/ 9	rmg	File creation
+//
+// $Id$
+//
+
+#ifndef slice_handler_rmg_20030909_included
+#define slice_handler_rmg_20030909_included
+
+#include <boost/python/object.hpp>
+#include <boost/python/list.hpp>
+
+// #include <boost/python/extract.hpp>
+
+namespace indexing
+{
+  struct slice
+  {
+    long start;
+    long step;   // Extended slices (currently unsupported)
+    long stop;
+
+    // Implement from_python using:
+    //
+    // PySlice_GetIndices
+    // (PySliceObject *slice, int length, int *start, int *stop, int *step)
+  };
+
+  template<class Algorithms, class Policy>
+  struct slice_handler
+  {
+    typedef typename Algorithms::container container;
+    typedef typename Algorithms::index_param index_param;
+    typedef typename Algorithms::value_type value_type;
+    typedef typename Algorithms::reference reference;
+
+    static PyObject *get_slice (container &c, slice const &sl)
+    {
+      boost::python::list temp;
+
+      for (long index = sl.start; index < sl.stop; index += sl.step)
+	{
+	  // *FIXME* handle return policies for each element?
+	  temp.append (Algorithms::get (c, index));
+	}
+
+      PyObject *result = list.ptr();
+      Py_INCREF (result);
+      return result;
+    }
+
+    static reference get_plain (container &c, index_param ix)
+    {
+      return Algorithms::get (c, ix);
+    }
+
+    static PyObject *get_automatic (PyObject *args
+				    , PyObject *keywords
+				    , boost::python::object plain_function
+				    , boost::python::object slice_function)
+    {
+      // ?
+      return 0;
+    }
+
+    static boost::python::object make_getitem (Policy const &policy)
+    {
+      // ? Is there an easy way to generate a function that will
+      // call get_plain or get_slice depending on the arguments?
+      //
+      // Could be done by using get_automatic as a dispatcher, with
+      // the last two parameters bound to wrappers for the two
+      // implementations, but maybe there is a better way.
+
+      return boost::python::make_function (get_plain, policy);
+    }
+  };
+}
+
+#endif // slice_handler_rmg_20030909_included