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I had the strangest crash happening when running some Python code from my C++ application. I'm using Boost.Python, and I was seeing the error down in the interpreter. I didn't have any debug information in there by default, so this started a grand adventure.
I have a situation where I need to use type information as an argument to a function. I'm trying to see if a list I am using contains an instance of an object. The instances implement a C++ interface I exposed to Python, and somebody may have implemented it exclusively in Python. Or they might have implemented it in C++. However, if they did implement it in C++, there will be a Python wrapper for it. Based on those assumptions, I expose this in my Python wrapper:
