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+// Original code by Hans Meine <meine <at> kogs1.informatik.uni-hamburg.de>:
+// Subject: Re: Raw constructor (i.e. combination of make_constructor and raw_function)
+// Newsgroups: gmane.comp.python.c++
+// Date: 2005-11-17 18:43:48 GMT
+// No copyright statement found. Presumed to be in the public domain.
+
+#ifndef RAW_CONSTRUCTOR_HPP
+#define RAW_CONSTRUCTOR_HPP
+
+#include <boost/python.hpp>
+#include <boost/python/raw_function.hpp>
+#include <boost/python/make_constructor.hpp>
+#include "boost/python/detail/api_placeholder.hpp" // python::len
+
+namespace boost { namespace python {
+
+namespace detail {
+
+  template <class F>
+  struct raw_constructor_dispatcher
+  {
+      raw_constructor_dispatcher(F f)
+     : f(make_constructor(f)) {}
+
+      PyObject* operator()(PyObject* args, PyObject* keywords)
+      {
+          borrowed_reference_t* ra = borrowed_reference(args);
+          object a(ra);
+          return incref(
+              object(
+                  f(
+                      object(a[0])
+                    , object(a.slice(0, len(a)))
+                    , keywords ? dict(borrowed_reference(keywords)) : dict()
+                  )
+              ).ptr()
+          );
+      }
+
+   private:
+      object f;
+  };
+
+} // namespace detail
+
+template <class F>
+object raw_constructor(F f, int min_args = 0)
+{
+    return detail::make_raw_function(
+        objects::py_function(
+            detail::raw_constructor_dispatcher<F>(f)
+          , mpl::vector2<void, object>()
+          , min_args+1
+          , (std::numeric_limits<unsigned>::max)()
+        )
+    );
+}
+
+}} // namespace boost::python
+
+#endif // RAW_CONSTRUCTOR_HPP