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The cppyy package integrates the Clang/LLVM-based Cling C++ interpreter into Python, providing interactive access to C/C++ from Python. Using precompiled modules, a class loader, and an everything-lazy implementation, cppyy is designed for automatically binding large scale C++ programs. PyPy supports cppyy natively for high performance, as described in this PyHPC'16 paper.

Thanks to LLVM's JIT, cppyy supports embedded C++ code, automatic template instantiations, auto-downcasting, etc., etc. Where possible, C++ idioms are automatically recognized and pythonized. If necessary, a pythonization API provides further fine tuning for memory ownership, threading, and application-specific conversions. Example:

   1 >>> import cppyy
   2 >>> cppyy.cppdef("""
   3 ... class MyClass {
   4 ... public:
   5 ...     MyClass(int i) : m_data(i) {}
   6 ...     int m_data;
   7 ... };""")                               # defines a new C++ class
   8 >>> from cppyy.gbl import MyClass        # bound on-the-fly
   9 >>> v = cppyy.gbl.std.vector[MyClass]()  # template generated
  10 >>> v += [MyClass(i) for i in range(3)]
  11 >>> len(v)
  12 3
  13 >>> for m in v:                          # idiomatically mapped
  14 ...    print(m.m_data)
  15 ...
  16 0
  17 1
  18 2
  19 # create a C++ function on the fly and attach on the Python side
  20 >>> cppyy.cppdef("auto add_int = [](MyClass* m, int a) { return m->m_data + a; };")
  21 >>> MyClass.add_int = lambda self, i: cppyy.gbl.add_int(self, i)
  22 >>> for m in v:
  23 ...    print(m.add_int(1))
  24 ... 
  25 1
  26 2
  27 3
  28 >>>

Full details in the cppyy documentation: http://cppyy.readthedocs.io

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