Mmmm, not really a conspiracy but it is not that trivial.... In wrapping c++ you might find useful the commands nm with c++filt although they work under linux there is the same pair for every platform (under windows I remember there is objdump): they should only you need to wrap a c++ library.
I've been wrapping in the past c++ using boost and it was trivial although I haven't tried enough to break it. swig, in older versions, is really bad: I can't comment on newer versions but I'd have a look to the generated code before using it. sip it looks quite difficult to use, but is well maintained. If you have a moderate control on the library design the ctype is the best approach IMHO. Regards, Antonio On Tuesday 02 June 2009 21:50:24 Joseph Garvin wrote: > So I was curious whether it's possible to use the ctypes module with > C++ and if so how difficult it is. I figure in principal it's possible > if ctypes knows about each compiler's name mangling scheme. So I > searched for "ctypes c++" on Google. > > The third link will be "Using ctypes to Wrap C++ Libraries". If you > follow the link, it's broken. If you view the cache of the link, it's > someone pointing to another blog, retrograde-orbit.blogspot.com, > saying they discovered a way to do it easily. If you follow that link, > you get taken a page does not exist error. > > Clearly there's some way to use ctypes with C++ and there's a vast > conspiracy preventing it from reaching the masses ;) What's even > stranger is that this link, despite being broken, has seemingly been > near the top of google's results for these terms for a couple weeks > (that's when I last tried), as if there were some underground group of > rebels trying to hint the truth to us... ;) > > More seriously -- how difficult is it to use ctypes instead of saying, > boost::python, and why isn't this in a FAQ somewhere? ;) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list