This patch makes a number of changes to the SWIG python module. 1. Add -apply option, and change the default code output to use the foo(*args, **kw) calling syntax instead of using apply(). If the -apply option is given then code is generated as before. This is very similar to Patch #737281 but the new -modern option makes the second half of that patch unnecessary so it is not included here. 2. Add -new_repr option. This is the same as my Patch #797002 which I will mark as closed since it is no longer needed. When this new option is used then the __repr__ methods that are generated for proxy classes will be more informative and give details about the python class and the C++ class. 3. Add %feature("addtofunc"). It allows you to insert one or more lines of code inside the shadow method or function that is already generated, instead of replacing the whole thing like %feature("shadow") does. For __init__ it goes at the end, for __del__ it goes at the begining and for all others the code generated is expanded out to be like def Bar(*args, **kwargs): val = _module.Foo_Bar(*args, **kwargs) return val and the "addtofunc" code is inserted just before the return statement. If the feature is not used for a particular method or function then the shorter code is generated just like before. 4. A little bit of refactoring to make implementing addtofunc a little easier. 5. Added a -modern command-line flag that will cause SWIG to omit the cruft in the proxy modules that allows it to work with versions of Python prior to 2.2. The result is a simpler, cleaner and faster python proxy module, but one that requires Python 2.2 or greater. For most of us this requirement is easy to live with! I've been using and greatly benefiting from all these features with wxPython for the last few weeks and have had no problems. This patch depends upon Patch #829317.