doc updates,

arbitrary arity constructors


[SVN r13511]

test/Jamfile

@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ bpl-test data_members ;
 bpl-test bienstman1 ;
 bpl-test bienstman2 ;
 bpl-test bienstman3 ;
+bpl-test multi_arg_constructor ;
 if $(TEST_BIENSTMAN_NON_BUGS)
 {
     bpl-test bienstman4 ;

test/multi_arg_constructor.cpp

@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+#include <boost/python/module.hpp>
+#include <boost/python/class.hpp>
+
+struct A
+{
+    A(const double, const double, const double, const double, const double, const double, const double) {}
+};
+
+BOOST_PYTHON_MODULE_INIT(multi_arg_constructor_ext)
+{
+  using namespace boost::python;
+  using boost::shared_ptr;
+
+  module("multi_arg_constructor_ext")
+  
+    .add(class_<A, shared_ptr<A> >("A")
+         .def_init(args<const double, const double, const double, const double, const double, const double, const double>())
+        )
+      ;
+
+}
+

test/multi_arg_constructor.py

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+'''
+>>> from multi_arg_constructor_ext import *
+>>> a = A(1.0, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.0)
+'''
+def run(args = None):
+    import sys
+    import doctest
+
+    if args is not None:
+        sys.argv = args
+    return doctest.testmod(sys.modules.get(__name__))
+    
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    print "running..."
+    import sys
+    sys.exit(run()[0])