PyRoot, Reflex, STL iterators and __deref__()

I am trying to understand how to access STL iterators from Python. The classes in question are generated via GaudiObjDesc and use Reflex for their dictionaries.

In particular I would like to know how to dereference an iterator to get at its underlying object. I believe the Python wrappers for the STL iterators, as generated by Reflex, are missing the __deref__() method.

The reason is that I look at Relax's dictionaries for HepMC and I see that the particle iterators (for example) do have the __deref__() method. With this method I can access the underlying object. If it matters, these iterators inherit from STL ones and are not direct STL classes.

Does anyone have any hints as to how I can dereference regular STL iterators from Python?

We are currently using ROOT 5.18/00.

Thanks,
-Brett. Received on Tue Dec 09 2008 - 01:45:53 CET