[PyQt] Possible bug in SIP

[Demetrius Cassidy]

I think it would help if you could provide a working example of this bug.
Like a sip file which reproduces this behavior.

On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 7:12 AM, Tony Lynch <tlynch at xype.com> wrote:

> Hi Phil
>
>
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> I’m using SIP to wrap a large C++ library and am very impressed with the
> results so far – you’ve got an annotation for most of the use cases I’m
> interested in. However, I think I’ve found a bug. I’ve copied in below my
> own ‘description to self’ of the problem, if it is not sufficient for you to
> see the problem then I’ll knock up a test case (let me know).
>
>
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> When the wrapper for a class or one of its super classes indicates
> 'virtual' for a method, a wrapper class is created in SIP called e.g.
> sipIwBrep, that checks if the python instance has an override method for the
> virtual call. If not then it calls what it thinks is the correct superclass
> call. However, it's idea of the correct superclass call (in this case the
> superclass being IwBrep)  is actually calculated from the wrapper
> declarations and it effectively finds the nearest superclass where the
> relevant function is wrapped. In the case of this bug, IwObject was the
> first superclass to have IsKindOf in the .sip file, so sipIwBrep was
> incorrectly calling IwObject::IsKindOf instead of IwBrep::IsKindOf.
>
>
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> I cannot see any reason why the SIP-produced subclass does not always call
> the method on the immediate superclass (i.e. the wrapped class, in this case
> IwBrep).
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> I hope the above makes sense,
>
> Regards
>
> Tony
>
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