Re: [Rdkit-devel] RDKit Python wrappers

[David C. <dav...@gm...>]

Ok, I'm convinced. I assumed there was probably a good reason, but
sometimes it's worth asking the question just in case. I'm not anti boost,
but, as with many of their libraries I have looked at, I found the
documentation impenetrable at first reading. I will persevere.

Cheers,
Dave

On Thu, 1 Dec 2016 at 20:03, Maciek Wójcikowski <ma...@wo...>
wrote:

> One big thing on pros side: boost::python supports serialization natively,
> and SWIG does not.
>
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> Pozdrawiam,  |  Best regards,
> Maciek Wójcikowski
> ma...@wo...
>
> 2016-12-01 20:46 GMT+01:00 Gianluca Sforna <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.
>
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