My users are high school robotics teams, and the RobotPy project is wrapping a C++ library that uses a lot of inheritance. They keep inheriting from C++ objects, add a constructor without calling the super constructor, it crashes, and they don't really know why at first. It would be great if pybind11 could catch this and throw a python exception instead with a useful error message.
As noted in this stack overflow answer (https://stackoverflow.com/a/46120342), from a metaclass it's possible to call a function after __init__ is called (at least from Python anyways). Has anyone tried customizing the pybind11 metaclass to do this sort of detection?
My users are high school robotics teams, and the RobotPy project is wrapping a C++ library that uses a lot of inheritance. They keep inheriting from C++ objects, add a constructor without calling the super constructor, it crashes, and they don't really know why at first. It would be great if pybind11 could catch this and throw a python exception instead with a useful error message.
As noted in this stack overflow answer (https://stackoverflow.com/a/46120342), from a metaclass it's possible to call a function after
__init__is called (at least from Python anyways). Has anyone tried customizing the pybind11 metaclass to do this sort of detection?