[Tutor] Python to C++

Andreas Kostyrka andreas at kostyrka.org
Tue Mar 25 16:33:21 CET 2008


Check out Cython or Pyrex. For a number of applications (performance
speedup, C interfacing) they provide a quite Pythonic experience.

Andreas

Am Dienstag, den 25.03.2008, 07:21 -0700 schrieb Tony Cappellini:
> Yes, but then you loose the clean Python readability, which is one of
> the strong points for using Python
> 
> 
> On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 2:46 AM, Andreas Kostyrka <andreas at kostyrka.org> wrote:
> > Well, not exactly. Mixing Python with C/C++ extends the "coverage" that
> >  you can do with Python.
> >
> >  Andreas
> >
> >
> >  Am Montag, den 24.03.2008, 23:39 -0700 schrieb Tony Cappellini:
> >
> >
> > > Another alternative is Weave
> >  > http://www.scipy.org/Weave
> >  >
> >  > But mixing C/C++ with Python sort of defeats the reasons for using
> >  > Python to begin with
> >  >
> >  > Message: 2
> >  > Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 02:44:54 +0100
> >  > From: Eike Welk <eike.welk at gmx.net>
> >  > Subject: Re: [Tutor] Python to C++
> >  > To: tutor at python.org
> >  > Message-ID: <200803220244.54377.eike.welk at gmx.net>
> >  > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
> >  >
> >  > On Friday 21 March 2008 23:37, Dinesh B Vadhia wrote:
> >  > > Thank-you for all the suggestions for converting to C/C++ which
> >  > > will be followed up.
> >  > >
> >  > > Can we interface Python to a C++ library and if so how?
> >  > >
> >  > > Dinesh
> >  > >
> >  >
> >  > If you have only few classes / member functions Boost-Python is a good
> >  > solution.
> >  > http://www.boost.org/libs/python/doc/
> >  >
> >  > I heard that SWIG can also generate glue code for C++.
> >  > http://www.swig.org/Doc1.3/SWIGPlus.html
> >  >
> >  > You could also look at Py-QT they have a tool like SWIG (SIP I think),
> >  > which they use to generate the glue code for the fairly big QT
> >  > library. Maybe you like it better.
> >  > http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/pyqt/
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