Inheritance from ChVehicle in pychrono

[James Roche]

Hi

I am trying to create a derived class based on ChVehicle in pychrono so that I can build a bespoke vehicle type (neither wheeled or tracked) and make use of the base functionality of ChVehicle.

However if I create a class in python that inherits from ChVehicle and then try and call methods associated with ChVehicle e.g.

self.SetName("some string")

I get 

Exception has occurred: TypeError

I understand this to mean that the first argument (in this case self) is a pointer to ChVehicle and not the object itself but I am unsure how/if I can get to the address from Python.

Any guidance gratefully received.

Kind Regards,

James

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