Re: [Swig-user] SWIG python doesn't support C++ ?

[William S F. <ws...@fu...>]

Bill Baxter wrote:
> I was browsing the Python FAQ when I ran across this:
> http://www.python.org/doc/faq/extending/#how-do-i-interface-to-c-objects-from-python 
> <http://www.python.org/doc/faq/extending/#how-do-i-interface-to-c-objects-from-python>
> 
> "How do I interface to C++ objects from Python? ...
> For C++ libraries, you can look at SIP 
> <http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/sip/>, CXX 
> <http://cxx.sourceforge.net/>, Boost 
> <http://www.boost.org/libs/python/doc/index.html>, or Weave 
> <http://www.scipy.org/site_content/weave>.
> SWIG <http://www.swig.org/> is a similar automated tool that only 
> supports C libraries. "
> [empahsis added]
> 
> Is this just out of date?  As far as I was aware SWIG supports 
> interfacing to C++ objects pretty well.
> 
> If it's wrong then someone should contact the FAQ maintainers about 
> fixing it.
> 
Yes this is definitely out of date.

William