Python Previous Work

There a several available tools to creating a Python interface to a C or C++ library.

SWIG

• http://www.swig.org/

PyBindgen

• https://github.com/gjcarneiro/pybindgen
• http://pybindgen.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Cython

• http://cython.org
• https://cython.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

SIP

Sip was developed to create PyQt.

• https://www.riverbankcomputing.com/software/sip/intro

Shiboken

Shiboken was developed to create PySide.

• https://wiki.qt.io/Qt_for_Python
• http://doc.qt.io/qtforpython/shiboken2/contents.html

Boost Python

• https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_66_0/libs/python/doc/html/index.html

Pybind11

• https://github.com/pybind/pybind11
• https://pybind11.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

Links

• Interfacing with C - Scipy lecture notes