Hello, I'm a newbie with Boost::Python but I tried to search on the web to do so

I want to expose a 3rd party library to Python. One of the class of the library (.hpp) is composed of

• a public constructor with arguments

• a protected constructor and functions

• various regular functions

• various pure virtual functions

• various non pure virtual functions

First, I did not succeed in building it without having errors about this protected constructor. I finally commented it. A first question would be : Is there a way to exclude these protected functions since I don't want to expose them ? (I know it's possible and easy with Py++, but I started without using it)

Then I tried to expose all of my functions, beginning with the pure virtual ones (commenting them all except one), which wasn't a success too

So I finally decided not to expose these virtual functions (which in fact seems logical...), but, here again, I didn't manage building it with a simple constructor with arguments (without no_init). So my second question is : Is there a way to exclude these virtual functions since I don't want to expose them ?

Sorry if it seems trivial but I didn't find anything explicit on the web and I need something rather explicit :).

Thanks in advance