What are the differences between SWIG and Boost.Python?

[Bryan]

how is pyrex at handling a c varargs function?

bryan


"Mike Rovner" <mike at bindkey.com> wrote in message
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> "Bryan" <belred1 at yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> > mike,
> >
> > you mentioned small c libs you use pyrex.  what about small but complex
> data
> > types?  we have a structures that contain pointers to structures that
>
> Sure Pyrex has its limits. My picture was general. In each particular case
I
> weight pro and contra.
>
> But it's especially nice to wrap C with Pyrex because it VERY easy to
adapt
> interface to pythonic way.
> Say I had a lib with (void*) handle parameter to pass almost every data
> structure and a bunch of different real structures.
> With Pyrex an ability to redefine was a plus - hard things like swig and
c++
> will not do in that case (nicely I mean).
> Complex (struct inside struct) data was no problem.
> I also use a script to convert an .h file to Pyrex - it was simple
15-liner
> __to run once__:
>
> #!/usr/bin/env perl
> /^\s*{\s*$/ && next;
> /^\s*} T.*$/ && next;
>
> s/;//;
> s/^\t//;
>
> s|/\*|\#|;
> s|^ *\*|\#|;
> s| *\*/$||;
>
> s/^\s*typedef +struct +SSX([A-Z_]+)/cdef struct TSX$1:/; $n=$1 if $1;
> s/^\s*struct/\ncdef struct $n:/;
> s/^\s*}/\t$n/;
>
> print;
>
> WBR,
> Mike
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