Is there any python library that parse c++ source code statically

[Stefan Behnel]

Francesco Bochicchio, 13.03.2011 10:37:
> On 13 Mar, 10:14, kuangye<kuangye19840... at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Hi, all. I need to generate other programming language source code
>> from C++ source code for a project. To achieve this, the first step is
>> to "understand" the c++ source code at least in formally. Thus is
>> there any library to parse the C++ source code statically. So I can
>> developer on this library.
>>
>> Since the C++ source code is rather simple and regular. I think i can
>> generate other language representation from C++ source code.
>
>
> The problem is that C++ is a beast of a language and is not easy to
> find full parsers for it.
> I've never done it, but sometime I researched possible ways to do it.
> The best idea I could come with
> is doing it in 2 steps:
>
>   - using gcc-xml ( http://www.gccxml.org/HTML/Index.html ) to generate
> an xml representation of the code
>   - using one of the many xml library for python to read the xml
> equivalent of the code and then generate the equivalent
>     code in other languages ( where you could use a template engine,
> but I found that the python built-in string
>     formatting libraries are quite up to the task ).

I also heard that clang is supposed to the quite useful for this kind of 
undertaking.

Stefan