Python / C++ integration

[Laura Creighton]

> On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 10:29:57AM +0000, Brandon Van Every wrote:
> > Andrew Bennetts wrote:
> > > On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 05:25:51AM +0000, Brandon Van Every wrote:
> > > [..snip..]
> > >> What are the pitfalls of trying to get classes to interoperate
> > >> between Python and C++?
> > >
> > > Have you looked at boost::python?
> > 
> > I bookmarked it.  Haven't so much as read the 0th page of the website.  Wha
> t
> > have been your experiences regarding the integration issues I raised?  Is
> > Boost popular / prime time / de facto?
> 
> I haven't used it, but from what I've seen of it, it will definitely be what
> I look at first if I wish to use some C++ in Python[1].  It's also the most
> commonly recommended module for extending Python with C++, from what I've
> seen... the only other alternative that springs to mind (short of doing
> everything manually) is SWIG.

The other ones that my mind finds are Pyrex 

http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg/python/Pyrex/version/Doc/About.html

and pyinline http://pyinline.sourceforge.net/

Laura

ps Brandon are you sure that LISP isn't what you want?