+%typemap(out) std::string const &
+{
+ $result = PyString_FromString(($1)->c_str());
+}
+
+// Convertion of incoming Python str to STL string
+%typemap(python, in) const std::string, std::string
+{
+ $1 = PyString_AsString($input);
+}
+
+// Same convertion as above but references (since swig converts C++
+// refererences to pointers)
+%typemap(python, in) std::string const &
+{
+ $1 = new std::string( PyString_AsString( $input ) );
+}
+
+//////////////////// gdcm.TagName versus Python str //////////////////////
+%typemap(out) gdcm::TagName, const gdcm::TagName &
+{
+ $result = PyString_FromString(($1)->c_str());
+}
+
+// Convertion of incoming Python str to STL string
+%typemap(python, in) const gdcm::TagName, gdcm::TagName
+{
+ $1 = PyString_AsString($input);
+}
+
+// Same convertion as above but references (since swig converts C++
+// refererences to pointers)
+%typemap(python, in) gdcm::TagName const &
+{
+ $1 = new std::string( PyString_AsString( $input ) );
+}
+
+////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
+// Because overloading and %rename don't work together (see below Note 1)
+// we need to ignore some methods (e.g. the overloaded default constructor).
+// The gdcm::File class doesn't have any SetFilename method anyhow, and
+// this constructor is only used internaly (not from the API) so this is
+// not a big loss.
+%ignore gdcm::binary_write(std::ostream &,uint32_t const &);
+%ignore gdcm::binary_write(std::ostream &,uint16_t const &);
+
+%ignore gdcm::DicomDir::SetStartMethod(DicomDir::Method *method,void *arg = NULL);
+%ignore gdcm::DicomDir::SetProgressMethod(DicomDir::Method *method,void *arg = NULL);
+%ignore gdcm::DicomDir::SetEndMethod(DicomDir::Method *method,void *arg = NULL);
+
+// Ignore all placed in gdcmCommon.h
+%ignore GDCM_UNKNOWN;
+%ignore GDCM_UNFOUND;
+%ignore GDCM_BINLOADED;
+%ignore GDCM_NOTLOADED;
+%ignore GDCM_UNREAD;
+
+%constant const char *UNKNOWN = "gdcm::Unknown";
+%constant const char *UNFOUND = "gdcm::Unfound";
+%constant const char *BINLOADED = "gdcm::Binary data loaded";
+%constant const char *NOTLOADED = "gdcm::NotLoaded";
+%constant const char *UNREAD = "gdcm::UnRead";
+
+////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
+// Warning: Order matters !
+%include "gdcmCommon.h"
+%include "gdcmBase.h"
+%include "gdcmDictEntry.h"
+%include "gdcmDict.h"
+%include "gdcmDictSet.h"
+%include "gdcmDocEntrySet.h"
+%include "gdcmElementSet.h"
+%include "gdcmSQItem.h"
+%include "gdcmDicomDirElement.h"
+%include "gdcmDicomDirObject.h"
+%include "gdcmDicomDirImage.h"
+%include "gdcmDicomDirSerie.h"
+%include "gdcmDicomDirStudy.h"
+%include "gdcmDicomDirPatient.h"
+%include "gdcmDicomDirMeta.h"
+%include "gdcmDocument.h"
+%include "gdcmFile.h"
+%include "gdcmSerieHelper.h"
+%include "gdcmFileHelper.h"
+%include "gdcmUtil.h"
+%include "gdcmGlobal.h"
+%include "gdcmDicomDir.h"
+%include "gdcmDocEntry.h"
+%include "gdcmContentEntry.h"
+%include "gdcmValEntry.h"
+%include "gdcmBinEntry.h"
+%include "gdcmSeqEntry.h"
+%include "gdcmVR.h"
+%include "gdcmTS.h"
+%include "gdcmDictGroupName.h"
+
+////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
+// Notes on swig and this file gdcm.i:
+//
+/////////////////////////////////////
+// Note 1: swig collision of method overloading and %typemap
+// Consider the following junk.i file:
+// %module junk
+// %{
+// #include <string>
+// #include <iostream>
+// void Junk(std::string const & bozo) { std::cout << bozo << std::endl; }
+// void Junk() { std::cout << "Renamed Junk()" << std::endl; }
+// %}
+//
+// %typemap(python, in) std::string const &
+// {
+// $1 = new std::string( PyString_AsString( $input ) );
+// }
+// void Junk();
+// void Junk(std::string const & bozo);
+//
+// that we compile on linux with:
+// swig -c++ -python junk.i
+// g++ -g -I/usr/include/python2.3/ -o junk_wrap.o -c junk_wrap.cxx
+// g++ junk_wrap.o -shared -g -o _junk.so -L/usr/lib/python2.3/config \
+// -lpython2.3
+// and invoque with:
+// python -c 'from junk import *; Junk("aaa") '
+// then we get the following unexpected (for novice) python TypeError:
+// TypeError: No matching function for overloaded 'Junk'
+//
+// This happens because the swig generated code (at least for python) does
+// the following two stage process:
+// 1/ first do a dynamic dispatch ON THE NUMBER OF ARGUMENTS of the overloaded
+// Junk function (the same happens with method of course). [Note that the
+// dispatch is NOT done on the type of the arguments].
+// 2/ second apply the typemap.
+// When the first dynamic dispatch is executed, the swig generated code
+// has no knowledge of the typemap, and thus expects a pointer to a std::string
+// type i.e. an argument to Junk of the form _p_std__int<address>. But this
+// is not what python handles to Junk ! An invocation of the form 'Junk("aaa")'
+// will make Python pass a PyString to swig (and this is precisely why we
+// wrote the typemap). And this will fail....
+/////////////////////////////////////