On 5 September 2015 at 18:10, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote:
> With sip/swig, I think it's much more automated, since on > the Python side you get normal Python classes, which support multiple > inheritance. > With Boost Python you also get the original C++ class as a Python class. It also supports inheritance (you want to expose your base C++ class as Python class, inherit from it in Python and store it in a vector of base pointers on the C++ side? You can), overriding of virtual methods from Python (including pure virtuals and abstract base classes), iterators, automatic exception translation, embedding, overloaded functions, custom converters, automatic pickle support, automatic handling of smart pointers and a host of other features. The documentation was recently updated here: http://boostorg.github.io/python/doc/html/reference/index.html IMO its only problem is that no new features have been added in ages and it is essentially in maintenance mode (unless someone picks the development up). The last substantial development was when Python 3.x support was added, so at least it is future proofed for a while. To me its design is unparalleled by any C++ wrapping tool for any language. Cheers, Francesco. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
