[Tutor] Python to C++

[Tony Cappellini]

Yes, but then you loose the clean Python readability, which is one of
the strong points for using Python


On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 2:46 AM, Andreas Kostyrka <andreas at kostyrka.org> wrote:
> Well, not exactly. Mixing Python with C/C++ extends the "coverage" that
>  you can do with Python.
>
>  Andreas
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>
>  Am Montag, den 24.03.2008, 23:39 -0700 schrieb Tony Cappellini:
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> > Another alternative is Weave
>  > http://www.scipy.org/Weave
>  >
>  > But mixing C/C++ with Python sort of defeats the reasons for using
>  > Python to begin with
>  >
>  > Message: 2
>  > Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 02:44:54 +0100
>  > From: Eike Welk <eike.welk at gmx.net>
>  > Subject: Re: [Tutor] Python to C++
>  > To: tutor at python.org
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>  > On Friday 21 March 2008 23:37, Dinesh B Vadhia wrote:
>  > > Thank-you for all the suggestions for converting to C/C++ which
>  > > will be followed up.
>  > >
>  > > Can we interface Python to a C++ library and if so how?
>  > >
>  > > Dinesh
>  > >
>  >
>  > If you have only few classes / member functions Boost-Python is a good
>  > solution.
>  > http://www.boost.org/libs/python/doc/
>  >
>  > I heard that SWIG can also generate glue code for C++.
>  > http://www.swig.org/Doc1.3/SWIGPlus.html
>  >
>  > You could also look at Py-QT they have a tool like SWIG (SIP I think),
>  > which they use to generate the glue code for the fairly big QT
>  > library. Maybe you like it better.
>  > http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/pyqt/
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