combining large C-programme with Python

[ian reinhart geiser]

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On Tuesday 23 October 2001 12:47 pm, Pieter De Ceuninck wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'd like to know if anyone can give some projects where existing C-code
> was modularized using Python. I'm planning to redesign (refactor) a
> large C-code with a new top-layer of Python and the necessary
> adaptations (as few as possible) in the underlying (numerical,
> scientific computing) C-code. I'm not talking about writing _new_
> scientific computing python-code with numpy or so, just using existing
> C-code.
> If no such projects are known, what would be a good way to refactor that
> huge code ? Complete re-implementation is not an option :-)
>
> thx,
> Pieter

SWIG and SIP are the two big ones.  SIP works great for C++ but lacks docs 
while SWIG seems a little harder to use, but is more flexable.  There is also 
some good docs in the python dist about Extending and Embedding python.

cheers
- -ian reinhart geiser
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