On 7/13/10 2:34 AM, Alf P. Steinbach /Usenet wrote:
PS: You (the reader) may be wondering, why why why Yet Another Python/C++
binding? Well, because I had this great name for it, "pyni", unfortunately
already in use. But cppy is very different from Boost: Boost is large, cppy is
tiny; Boost has as main goal to expose arbitrary C++ code to Python, automating
argument conversion etc., while with cppy your Python design is exposed to C++
with no enforced arg conversions and such; Boost relies on canned magic,
difficult to subvert when it doesn't do what you want, while with cppy you are
(or, so far, I am) in control; and I suspect that the Boost Python binding,
relying on dynamic registries and stuff, is not all that efficient, while cppy
is as efficient as using the Python C API to create an extension. And besides,
cppy supports national characters in doc strings etc. And I'm Norwegian. So. :-)
Note that Boost is not the only C++ binding out there. You may want to take a
look at the old SCXX library, which appears to be similar in intent:
http://davidf.sjsoft.com/mirrors/mcmillan-inc/scxx.html
matplotlib uses it heavily, and their included copy may include some more recent
bugfixes and enhancements:
http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/
--
Robert Kern
"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
an underlying truth."
-- Umberto Eco
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