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_8

8. Module Development with Boost.Python and PyBind

Adam Gladstone¹  

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Madrid, Spain

 

Introduction

In the previous chapter, we saw how to create a basic Python extension module. We added code to expose functionality from the underlying C++ library of statistical functions. We saw how to perform the conversion between PyObject pointers and native C++ types. While not especially difficult, we saw that it is potentially error prone. In this chapter, we consider two frameworks – Boost.Python and PyBind – that overcome these difficulties, making the development ...