On 09/30/2009 11:48 PM, Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve wrote:
lvalue_from_pytype only works for passing by value or const
references/pointers, but that seems to match your case,
since you MPI_Comm is passed by value to your sayhello().
However, wrapping extern "C" isn't portable, AFAIK. You'll need a thin C++
wrapper for each of the C functions.
Yes. I think you are right. I'm going to try that now.
Did you consider writing a thin object-oriented wrapper around the raw MPI
interfaces? Then it should be very straightforward to bind the wrapper with
Boost.Python, and you'll have a more intuitive Python interface.
E.g. make a class that owns MPI_Comm, passed as boost::python::object, and then
give it a .sayhello() method using the comm data member.
It's more complicated than that. mpi4py provides a nice object-oriented
wrapper on the Python side. The mpi4py wrapper is based on the
"standard" MPI C++ bindings. Unfortunately, older versions of MPI don't
support the C++ bindings and MPI has decided that the bindings will be
dropped in the future, so I really don't want to start using them now. I
think I will do as you suggest and just write very thin wrappers around
the C interfaces.
Thanks for your help.
--Jim Amundson
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