boost.python binds C++ and Python. Read ["/GettingStarted"] for an introduction.

This page serves as a forum to gather peoples' experience and as a cookbook, as it is more dynamic by nature and open to contributors.

Various items:

• ["/GettingStarted"]

• ["/FAQ"]

• /HowTo

• /BuildingExtensions

• ["/module"] level: def,scope
• ["/class"]
• ["/extract"]
• ["/object"]
• ["/list"]
• ["/iterator"]

• /CallPolicy

• /RuntimeErrors

• /RelatedProjects

Tutorial:

1. /SimpleExample

2. /ExportingClasses

3. /OverridableVirtualFunctions

4. /FunctionOverloading

5. ["/Inheritance"]

6. /SpecialMethods

7. /PeekUnderTheHood

8. /CrossExtensionModuleDependencies

9. /WrappingEnums

10. /PointersAndSmartPointers

11. /InternalDataStructures

12. /EmbeddingPython

Test cases:

• /StlContainers