Revision 870

g++ on Linux would not swallow

std::string name(boost::python::extract<std::string>(keys[i_data]),0 , MAX_namelength);

so I broke it down for the poor thing:

const std::string &
full_name = boost::python::extract<std::string>(keys[i_data]);
std::string name(full_name, 0, MAX_namelength);