一首诗 wrote: > I read this interesting post comparing Boost.Python with Pyd: > > http://pyd.dsource.org/vsboost.html > > What's your opinion about it? > > What's your first choice when you have write a C/C++ module for Python?
There is no such thing as a C/C++ language. Seriously, both are really different and require different approaches. That said, when writing a C++ module I use Boost.Python, for one because Boost is already part of many C++ projects but also because it is simply very easy and convenient to use. There is another alternative, ctypes, which also works but it IMHO brings many of the disadvantages of C to Python. In particular those are manual resource management and lack of exceptions. Looking at Boost.Python though, you can simply throw a C++ exception and it gets mapped to a Python exception, and resource management is also a non issue since you can make ownership transfers explicit. Now, concerning pyd, I think you are comparing apples to oranges. If you had asked which language I would chose to write a Python plugin, that would have been a totally different thing. To that, the answer is in order of preference: 1. Python ;) 2. C++ with Boost.Python 3. C with ctypes cheers Uli -- Sator Laser GmbH Geschäftsführer: Thorsten Föcking, Amtsgericht Hamburg HR B62 932 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list