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-// Copyright David Abrahams 2001. Permission to copy, use,
-// modify, sell and distribute this software is granted provided this
-// copyright notice appears in all copies. This software is provided
-// "as is" without express or implied warranty, and with no claim as
-// to its suitability for any purpose.
-#ifndef HANDLE_DWA20011130_HPP
-# define HANDLE_DWA20011130_HPP
-# include <boost/python/detail/config.hpp>
-# include <boost/utility.hpp>
-# include <boost/python/detail/wrap_python.hpp>
-
-namespace boost { namespace python { namespace converter { 
-
-struct BOOST_PYTHON_DECL body;
-
-// The common base class for unwrap_ and wrap_ handle objects. They
-// share a common base so that handles can be linked into a chain
-// within a function wrapper which is managed by a single object.
-struct BOOST_PYTHON_DECL handle : private boost::noncopyable
-{
- public: // member functions
-
-    // All constructors take a body* passed from the derived class.
-    //
-    // Constructors taking a handle links this into a chain of
-    // handles, for more efficient management in function wrappers
-    handle();
-    handle(body* body);
-    handle(body* body, handle& prev);
-
-    // returns true iff all handles in the chain can convert their
-    // arguments
-    bool convertible() const;
-
-    // safe_bool idiom from Peter Dimov: provides handles to/from
-    // bool without enabling handles to integer types/void*.
- private:
-    struct dummy { inline void nonnull() {} };
-    typedef void (dummy::*safe_bool)();
- public:
-    inline operator safe_bool() const;
-    inline safe_bool operator!() const;
-    
- protected: // member functions for derived classes
-    // Get the body we hold
-    inline body* get_body() const;
-
-    inline void set_body(body*);
-    inline void set_prev(handle&);
-    
-    // Release all bodies in the chain, in reverse order of
-    // initialization. Only actually called for the head of the chain.
-    void destroy();
-    
- private:
-    // Holds implementation
-    body* m_body;
-    
-    // handle for next argument, if any.
-    handle* m_next;
-};
-
-//
-// implementations
-// 
-inline handle::handle()
-    : m_next(0)
-{}
-
-inline handle::handle(body* body, handle& prev)
-    : m_body(body), m_next(0)
-{
-    prev.m_next = this;
-}
-
-inline handle::handle(body* body)
-    : m_body(body), m_next(0)
-{
-}
-
-inline handle::operator handle::safe_bool() const
-{
-    return convertible() ? &dummy::nonnull : 0;
-}
-
-inline handle::safe_bool handle::operator!() const
-{
-    return convertible() ? 0 : &dummy::nonnull;
-}
-
-inline body* handle::get_body() const
-{
-    return m_body;
-}
-
-inline void handle::set_body(body* body)
-{
-    m_body = body;
-}
-
-inline void handle::set_prev(handle& prev)
-{
-    prev.m_next = this;
-}
-
-}}} // namespace boost::python::converter
-
-#endif // HANDLE_DWA20011130_HPP