boost.python

Legacy Wiki Page

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Boost.Python binds C++ and Python. Read /GettingStarted for an introduction.

This page serves as a forum to gather peoples’ experience and as a cookbook, as it is more dynamic by nature and open to contributors.

Various items:

• /GettingStarted

• /FAQ

• /HowTo

• /BuildingExtensions

• /module level: def,scope

• /class

• /extract

• /object

• /handle

• /list

• /iterator

• /CallPolicy

• /RuntimeErrors

• /RelatedProjects

Tutorial:

1. /SimpleExample

2. /ExportingClasses

3. /OverridableVirtualFunctions

4. /FunctionOverloading

5. /Inheritance

6. /SpecialMethods

7. /PeekUnderTheHood

8. /CrossExtensionModuleDependencies

9. /WrappingEnums

10. /PointersAndSmartPointers

11. /InternalDataStructures

12. /EmbeddingPython

Test cases:

• /StlContainers