Boost.Python

David Abrahams

Stefan Seefeld

Copyright © 2002-2015 David Abrahams, Stefan Seefeld

Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. (See accompanying file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt)

Synopsis

Welcome to Boost.Python, a C++ library which enables seamless interoperability between C++ and the Python programming language. The library includes support for:

References and Pointers
Globally Registered Type Coercions
Automatic Cross-Module Type Conversions
Efficient Function Overloading
C++ to Python Exception Translation
Default Arguments
Keyword Arguments
Manipulating Python objects in C++
Exporting C++ Iterators as Python Iterators
Documentation Strings

The development of these features was funded in part by grants to Boost Consulting from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories and by the Computational Crystallography Initiative at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories.

Contents

Articles

Building Hybrid Systems With Boost Python, by Dave Abrahams and Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve

Last revised: September 22, 2024 at 17:27:34 GMT