Christopher Barker wrote: > Louis Pecora wrote: > >> Christopher Barker wrote: > > >> Yeow, Chris, you really have a lot to say about what I'm interested >> in. Thanks very much! > > > That's because I'm in the same boat. I keep bouncing back and forth > between the approaches, because it's hard to find one that does > everything well. At the moment, I think I'm going with SWIG. I found > some typemaps (what SWIG uses to translate for Python types to C > types) for Numeric arrays that I want to use.
I use Numeric a lot. Where are those typemaps? Por favor. :-) > > I'm going with SWIG because I want to wrap a couple existing > libraries, and one that is under development now, and we need to use > from both C++ and Python. If it were just me, I'd dump C++ for primary > app development (like you're working on), and just write Python for > anything not computationally intensive. But it's not up to me, and > folks here are distrustful of anything "new". At NOAA? Isn't that a research place? Sheeze. You think they'd want you looking for new stuff. > > If I didn't need to use the same libs from C++ and Python, and was > more comfortable with C++ I'd probably give Boost::python a try. Or > Pyrex. It depends on whether you see yourself writing just the inner > loops in C, where pyrex would be an excellent choice, or writing a > full lib with classes and all that, where Boost::Python would probably > be a better option. I tried installing the Boost libraries and got hung up. That was for another project where I wanted to use someone elses code for n-ary search tress, but it required boost. Never did get it to work. > > I'd like to hear how things go for you. Particularly if you use SWIG, > we could probably help each other out. > Ya got a deal. I'm going to look hard at SWIG right now. Thanks. -- Cheers, Lou Pecora Code 6362 Naval Research Lab Washington, DC 20375 USA Ph: +202-767-6002 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
