Python SWIG C++ exception

Question

After reading an excellent answer on Dynamically rethrowing self-defined C++ exceptions as Python exceptions using SWIG, I am trying to throw a custom Exception from C++ and catch it in Python. I have tried to build the simplest example, so that I can see what I'm doing wrong. I would appreciate some help here.

I've started by creating a class called Example which has one method. In this method, I always throw my Exception which extends the Exception base class in C++. This exception is declared in the header.

I'm trying to catch this Exception in Python but so far I am unable to get this to compile. I tried some of the other solutions in the thread mentioned aboved, and while they compiled, I did not seem to be able to catch the Exception without Python aborting.

Here's what I have so far (a very basic project)

example.h

#ifndef EXAMPLE_H
#define EXAMPLE_H

#include <string>
#include <exception>

class Example
{
public:
    std::string getName();

};

class ExampleException
{
public:
    ExampleException(const std::string &what) { this->eMsg == (std::string(what)); }
    const char * what() const throw() { return eMsg.c_str(); }
private:
    std::string eMsg;
};

#endif // EXAMPLE_H

example.cpp

#include "example.h"
#include "exception"

using namespace std;


std::string Example::getName()
{
   /* Always throw an exception just so we can test this */
   throw ExampleException("Couldn't find a name");
   return("John");
}

example.i

%module example
%include "example.i"
%include exception.i

%init %{
    m_ExampleException = PyErr_NewException("_example.ExampleException", NULL, NULL);
    Py_INCREF(m_ExampleException);
    PyModule_AddObject(m, "ExampleException", m_ExampleException);
%}

%exception {
    try {
        $action
    } catch (ExampleException &e) {
PyErr_SetString(ExampleException, const_cast<char*>(e.what()));
    SWIG_fail;
    }
}

%{
    #include "example.h"
    #define SWIG_FILE_WITH_INIT
    static PyObject* m_ExampleException;
%}

test.py

import example

try:
   print example.Example_getName()
except ExampleException as e:
   print e.what()

And I run the following commands to build the project:

swig -verbose -python -c++ example.i
g++ -fPIC -c example_wrap.cxx -I/usr/include/python2.7 -o example_wrap.o -fPIC
g++ -c example.cpp -I/usr/include/python2.7 -fPIC
g++ -shared example_wrap.o example.o -o _example.so

Unfortunately, I am given the following error message as well as a warning:

example_wrap.cxx: In function ‘void init_example()’:
example_wrap.cxx:3839:82: warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to ‘char*’ [-Wwrite-strings]
m_ExampleException = PyErr_NewException("_example.ExampleException", NULL, NULL);
                                                                              ^
In file included from /usr/include/python2.7/Python.h:80:0,
             from example_wrap.cxx:171:
/usr/include/python2.7/object.h:769:20: error: expected primary-expression before ‘)’ token
 ((PyObject*)(op))->ob_refcnt++)

I feel like I'm missing something obvious and would appreciate an extra pair of eyes. I have not used SWIG and C++ together extensively before.

Thanks for your time