python API wrapper for C++ API

[Josiah Carlson]

"Mark Doberenz" <mark.doberenz at righthemisphere.com> wrote:
> I'm fairly new at Python, but I've got a project I really want to do.
>  
> I'm working with a real-time 3D program called Deep Creator, and it has
> a C++ API written for it.  I'm wondering what it would take to create a
> Python wrapper that would allow me to write Python programs that would
> call the C++ API.
>  
> The main issue I'm running into is that I need to create a DLL that I
> load as a plugin into Deep Creator.  I then will specify a python
> program inside Deep Creator that I want to run, and the DLL plugin will
> be the link between the python program and Deep Creator.
>  
> I'd really appreciate any ideas or issues that people see with this set
> up.

The first thing you need to decide is whether you want to call C++ from
Python, Python from C++, both, or whether you want to embed a Python
interpreter inside your application.

The standard places to look for this kind of thing are ctypes, SWIG, and
Boost.Python.

 - Josiah