embed python in C++

[wkuang]

Is there anyone know how to install boost.python. The website said most
boost libary are implemented entirely within their header files, but the
makefile for linux have libboost_python.a, so I assume boost.python is one
of the exception. Basically, I havenot been able to run a single example
successfully. Any idea? Thanks.

I am using linux 7.1 with KCC 4.0e, gcc2.96 is kind of ok.

Wan Kuang

Electric Engineering - Electrophysics
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA 90007


On Thu, 9 Aug 2001, Alex Martelli wrote:

> "wkuang" <wkuang at aludra.usc.edu> wrote in message
> news:Pine.GSO.4.21.0108081706040.6900-100000 at aludra.usc.edu...
> > hi,
> >
> > I am interested in having an interpreter handling my c++ program
> > input/output to add some flexibility, and someone tells me python maybe
> > one. I searched through python website and unfortanetly got little
> > information other than a page saying python could be embeded in C++
> > program. I am wondering if it is possible to have my c++ program read
> > memory that python generated. For example,
>     ...
> > Is there any book or website that elaborate embedding stuff? And any
> 
> If your C++ compiler is up to snuff, check out www.boost.org, and
> specifically the Boost Python Library: it makes it very easy to
> expose your program's classes to Python (that's the "extending"
> part of the "extending and embedding" paradigm).  Once you have
> that, the embedding proper is quite simple, and pretty well
> documented e.g. at http://www.python.org/doc/current/ext/ext.html
> (which however focuses on the C-level approaches; Boost Python
> uses the most advanced C++ functionality, particularly templates,
> to let you do similar extending-things MUCH more smoothly:-).
> 
> If your C++ compiler isn't very good & updated, there are other
> approaches to exposing your application functionality to the
> scripting language -- the C-level Python API at the above URL,
> SWIG at http://www.swig.org/, CXX (if you have a decent but
> not really good C++ compiler) http://cxx.sourceforge.net/, and
> others yet.  Note that all of these focus on the hard part,
> extending -- embedding itself is much simpler, as
> http://www.python.org/doc/current/api/embedding.html says
> "The one important task that only embedders (as opposed to extension
> writers) of the Python interpreter have to worry about is the
> initialization, and possibly the finalization, of the Python interpreter".
> 
> For a simple example of embedding, see also
> http://www.mcmillan-inc.com/embed.html (seems to be down
> right now, but try Google at:
> http://www.google.com/search?num=20&hl=en&safe=off&q=embedding+python
> it will be about the 7th hit and you can visit the
> 'Cached' entry to read it).
> 
> 
> Alex
> 
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