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- PyCXX is designed to make it easier to extend Python with C++
- CXX/Objects is a set of C++ facilities to make it easier to write Python
- extensions. The chief way in which PyCXX makes it easier to write Python
- extensions is that it greatly increases the probability that your program
- will not make a reference-counting error and will not have to continually
- check error returns from the Python C API. CXX/Objects integrates Python
- with C++ in these ways:
- + C++ exception handling is relied on to detect errors and clean up. In a
- complicated function this is often a tremendous problem when writing in C.
- With PyCXX, we let the compiler keep track of what objects need to be
- dereferenced when an error occurs.
- + The Standard Template Library (STL) and its many algorithms plug and
- play with Python containers such as lists and tuples.
- + The optional CXX/Extensions facility allows you to replace the clumsy C
- tables with objects and method calls that define your modules and
- extension objects.
- The original source will install CXX source code needed to help building
- python/C++ extension under /usr/share/python2.6/CXX which is a standard
- Debian directory. As Slackware does not have /usr/share/python2.6, I
- patched the installer to use /usr/share/CXX in order to follow the style of
- stock python packages like pygobject or pygtk. Be aware, though, that
- python packages that will use PyCXX will probably look for the needed files
- under the Debian standard path! You should investigate if their setup.py
- accept any switch to setup a different search path otherwise you will have
- to patch them.
- This requires pysetuptools.
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