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Synopsis

Welcome to version 2 of Boost.Python, a C++ library which enables seamless interoperability between C++ and the Python programming language. The new version has been rewritten from the ground up, with a more convenient and flexible interface, and many new capabilities, including 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.

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Contents

Tutorial Introduction

Building and Testing

Reference Manual

Suites:

• Pickle
• Indexing

Configuration Information

Known Working Platforms and Compilers

Definitions

Projects using Boost.Python

Support Resources

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Py++ Boost.Python code generator

Pyste Boost.Python code generator (no longer maintained)

Internals Documentation

News/Change Log

TODO list

LLNL Progress Reports

Acknowledgments

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Articles

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

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Revised 26 August, 2003

© Copyright Dave Abrahams 2002-2003.