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Boost :: tuple Python equivalent of itemgetter?

I have some code that looks like this:

typedef tuple<int, int, double> DataPoint;
vector<DataPoint> data;
vector<double> third_column_only;
// Code to read in data goes here.
transform(data.begin(), data.end(), back_inserter(values), tuples::get<1, DataPoint>);

Unfortunately, the last line doesn't compile - it gives me a message like this:

/path/to/boost/tuple/detail/tuple_basic.hpp: In instantiation of `boost :: tuples :: cons':
/path/to/boost/tuple/detail/tuple_basic.hpp:144: instantiated from `boost :: tuples :: element> '
program.cc:33: instantiated from here
/path/to/boost/tuple/detail/tuple_basic.hpp:329: error: `boost :: tuples :: cons :: tail 'has incomplete type
/path/to/boost/tuple/detail/tuple_basic.hpp:329: error: invalid use of template type parameter
/path/to/boost/tuple/detail/tuple_basic.hpp:151: confused by earlier errors, bailing out

Basically, to use Python's operator.itemgetter function, I want to do something like this:

transform(data.begin(), data.end(), back_inserter(values), itemgetter(2))

How can I do this with Boost?

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For this you will need boost::bind

.

double get2(boost::tuple<int,int,double> const& v ) {
    return boost::get<2>(v) ;
}

int main () {
    using namespace std ;
    using namespace boost ;
    typedef tuple<int, int, double> DataPoint;
    vector<DataPoint> data;
    vector<double> third_column_only;
    // Code to read in data goes here.
    transform(data.begin(), data.end(), back_inserter(values), bind(get2, _1);
}

Basically, the function is get2

also unnecessary, but we have to specify exactly the template argument for the function boost::get

, perhaps like:



transform(data.begin(), data.end(), back_inserter(values), 
          bind(get<2, int, tuple<int, double> >, _1);

I am ashamed that I cannot specify a template argument, so I used a helper function. Excuse me.

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