SCXX is a very lightweight set of C++ classes that wrap the most commonly used Python objects. It is inspired by Paul Dubois's CXX (part of the LLNL download), but does not use templates or STL, (it does use exceptions) and only covers a subset of CXX's capabilities. (And this is why I wrote SCXX - templates / STL don't work or bloat on many compilers; and I wanted something very lightweight.) Like CXX, the primary advantage is that you can write C++ code that looks a whole lot like Python. Reference counts are taken care of; wrapping an existing object forces a typecheck; you can use square brackets to access sequences and dicts, just like you'd expect... SCXX uses the highest possible level of the Python / C API at all times. While this is slow (refcounting has not been optimized), it is very small, and most of it will be inlined on most compilers. SCXX lives on my starship pages (starship.python.net/crew/gmcm/scxx.html). It is used by the new MetaKit wrap that Jean-Claude just announced. (The backlink to MkWrap is broken, I'll fix this when my ISP's DNS servers come back). SCXX has been tested on Windows (MSVC 5) and Linux (egcs) by me, and on MSVC 6 and newer releases of egcs by Jean-Claude. [RH 5.2's distribution of egcs (egcs2.90.29 - egcs-1.0.3) is broken when it comes to exceptions (catch doesn't). This is fixable by downloading the sources and rebuilding.] The license is "do as thou wilt", but please maintain the copyright notices; and no warranty, of course. - Gordon <P><A HREF="starship.python.net/crew/gmcm/scxx.html">SCXX beta 1</A> - lightweight C++ wrapper for dealing with PyObjects; for writing C++ that looks more like Python than the C API. (08-Aug-99) -- ----------- comp.lang.python.announce (moderated) ---------- Article Submission Address: python-announce@python.org Python Language Home Page: http://www.python.org/ Python Quick Help Index: http://www.python.org/Help.html ------------------------------------------------------------