• boost.python

See ["/Introduction"] for an introduction to Boost::Python.

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:

• ["/Introduction"]
• ["/FAQ"]

• /HowTo

• /BuildingExtensions

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

• /CallPolicy

• /RuntimeErrors

Tutorial:

1. /SimpleExample

2. /ExportingClasses

3. /OverridableVirtualFunctions

4. /FunctionOverloading

5. ["/Inheritance"]

6. /SpecialMethods

7. /PeekUnderTheHood

8. /CrossExtensionModuleDependencies

9. /WrappingEnums

10. /PointersAndSmartPointers

11. /InternalDataStructures

Test cases:

• /StlContainers

From DavidAbrahams:

Boost.Python is designed with the idea in mind that users never touch a PyObject*.

Boost.Python depends on quite a few of the other boost libraries (possibly a few others):

• type_traits
• bind
• function
• mpl
• smart_ptr

IIUC, ["weave"] can be used for embedding nontrivial C++ code, if you're willing to stick it all inside one function body. Furthermore, tools like weave.blitz() can make an enormous difference by compiling an entire C++ expression template corresponding to an arbitrarily complicated Python expression. Surely that's nontrivial. It's definitely cool. I think weave offers enormous power to the person who's programming mostly in Python.