> When creating a Python binding to a C or C++ library, which is easier > to wrap, the C lib or the C++ one? Given a choice, if you had to > choose between using one of two libs, one written in C, the other in C+ > + -- both having approximately the same functionality -- which would > you rather deal with from your Python code? > > It would seem to me that there's fewer design considerations when > wrapping a library written in C; you just wrap the functions. However, > since Python supports OOP nicely, it might also be that wrapping C++ > code *could* also be staightforward... Are there many pitfalls when > having to map C++'s notion of OO to Python?
There is no question about it in my mind that wrapping C is easier. Reason being that python is written in C and not C++. Cheers, Daniel -- Psss, psss, put it down! - http://www.cafepress.com/putitdown -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
