[PyKDE] sip: copy constructors

Phil Thompson phil at riverbankcomputing.co.uk
Wed Dec 24 20:52:00 GMT 2003


On Wednesday 17 December 2003 9:32 am, Patrick Stinson wrote:
> why is it that sip tries to pass a 'const' object reference into a copy
> constructor? This is, in the first place, painful for class w/o copy
> constructors, it also leads one to a bit of confusion as to the correct way
> to add one in, or keep sip from generating that code.

SIP does that because (correct me if I am wrong) that's what C++ does if you 
don't specify your own copy ctor.

To prevent SIP doing it declare a private copy ctor in your .sip file. PyQt 
does this for every widget.

Phil




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