Re: [Rdkit-devel] RDKit Python wrappers

[Gianluca S. <gi...@gm...>]

On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 7:09 PM, Brian Kelley <fus...@gm...> wrote:
> Having used both, I think that boost wrappers are far more pythonic, compile faster, do docstrings better and finally handle exceptions between c++ and Python far better.
>
> The downside is that when you get a compile error, it is several pages long.

While we are at this, I stumbled few days ago on this project:

https://github.com/pybind/pybind11

That claims to work mostly like boost::python, just without the boost part.

If we were to try removing the boost dependency, I think it could be useful.