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Weave

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.