I have included the EventConstants class in my ROOT dict but I do not see these types of variables defined anyplace when I look around in Python.
How can I read the values of these types of static const variables within my PyROOT session? Do I need some special arguments/declarations for these to be handled properly by the class dict?
I ended up just changing my constants to std strings instead of char*, and then I can see the constants fine in Python. So it doesn’t seem to interpret the C style strings correctly.
Anyways, this is a reasonable solution to me I think.
about correctly … “char*” in C++ is often used to mean “byte*” (and byte just having been voted down, that ambiguity will remain for some time). So, in the bindings, it is often conservatively treated as the latter b/c you can make a “char*” from a “byte*”, but not the other way around (any ‘\0’ in the data will terminate the string copy). You probably have more luck with “const char*”.