Hi there, I'm an beginner-intermediate c++ programmer, and I've also been programming in Python for over a year also . I have also read through the mailing list archive. I'm working on a project as a hobbie, it also will help me to gain more appreciation of C/C++ and Python. some friends of mine have written (not 100% completed yet) a DBMS(engine, parser, the lot), and I've been thinking of writing api for it and port it to python. but in order to do that, I'll need a better understanding of Python and C++, I assume. so I was wondering, what are the essentials that I need to know in order to be able to write C++ codes which can be imported by Python and vice versa? Your helps are much appreciated. cheers Bill Shui