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Try boost-python, SWIG or cython instead. They give you a nicer c++ api and automatically handles ref-counting, exception handling and other things that are eas
by Too 8y ago
Try boost-python, SWIG or cython instead. They give you a nicer c++ api and automatically handles ref-counting, exception handling and other things that are easy to forget.
https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_61_0/libs/python/doc/html/tutorial/index.html#tutorial.quickstart https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_61_0/libs/python/doc/html/t...
- eesmith 8y agoHow is the Boost/PyPy integration? Sure, there's cpyext, so in principle a Boost-generated extension can be used by pypy. Are there any changes which would make Boost-based extensions better integrated/supported by PyPy? The linked-to document only talks about Cython and cffi.
- mattip 8y agoThere is cppyy, which is cffi for c++. Boost python is not being maintained, in the cpython world pybind11 is more popular but cppyy is pypy freindly
- eesmith 8y agoBoost isn't being maintained? I did not know that. One of the project I use often - F/OSS but I'm a user, not core developer - uses Boost for C++/Python integration. They chose it many years ago. This topic has never come up on the mailing list or user group meetings. I suspect that since Boost "just works", no one has care to re-evaluate that decision. Thanks for the pointers to what's going on in the C++/python integration layer. I'll experiment with it.