C++ Software Interoperability for Windows Programmers: Connecting to C#, R, and Python Clients

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A. GladstoneC++ Software Interoperability for Windows Programmershttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7966-3_7

7. Building a Python Extension Module

Adam Gladstone¹  

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Madrid, Spain

 

Introduction

In this chapter and the next, we look at building Python extension modules. These are components that connect C/C++ to Python. Python has been around for quite some time, and over the years, a number of different approaches to accomplishing this have been developed. Table 7-1 lists some of the approaches.

Table 7-1

Approaches to connecting C/C++ to Python¹

Approach	Vintage	Representative users
C/C++ extension modules for CPython	1991	Standard Library
PyBind11 (recommended for ...