python/C++ wrapper

[Frank]

Hi,

is there anyone here that calls C++ programs from python via swig? It
seems that there are a lot of different ways to do that. For me it
would be important that the original c++ code (which is available)
does not need to be changed and the whole compilation process (swig -
python.... g++....etc) is as simple as possible.

Does anyone have a running example of the following problem:

- A c++ program receives a 2D-matrix from python as input and gives a
2D-matrix as output back to python.

That's all! I would expect there should be someone who actually uses
swig for this kind of problem. If so, could you send me the code, that
would be great!

If it is important, I use linux and numpy.

Thanks,

Frank

 

[Roman Yakovenko]

Hi,

is there anyone here that calls C++ programs from python via swig? It
seems that there are a lot of different ways to do that. For me it
would be important that the original c++ code (which is available)
does not need to be changed and the whole compilation process (swig -
python.... g++....etc) is as simple as possible.

Does anyone have a running example of the following problem:

- A c++ program receives a 2D-matrix from python as input and gives a
2D-matrix as output back to python.

That's all! I would expect there should be someone who actually uses
swig for this kind of problem. If so, could you send me the code, that
would be great!

If this is all you need, than may be you don't need to use any code
generator, but try
some other way: Boost.Python. Take a look on tutorials:
http://www.boost.org/libs/python/doc/tutorial/doc/html/python/exposing.html

 

[Szabolcs Nagy]

- A c++ program receives a 2D-matrix from python as input and gives a

2D-matrix as output back to python.

pyogre uses swig

ogre is a 3d realtime rendering engine written in c++ so there are
many matrix manipulation there and also pyogre does not modify the
original code

cgkit is a computer graphics toolkit written in c++ for python and it
uses boost-python and it uses matrices as well

if you want matrix manipulations in python then you may want to look
into numpy c api

 

[Roman Yakovenko]

pyogre uses swig

Well, pyogre has few problems with maintenance, and new bindings to
Ogre engine was
created using Boost.Python( http://www.ogre3d.org/wiki/index.php/PyOgre )

 

[Szabolcs Nagy]

Well, pyogre has few problems with maintenance, and new bindings to
Ogre engine was
created using Boost.Python( http://www.ogre3d.org/wiki/index.php/PyOgre )

oh
last time i played with pyogre they made a transition from boost to
swig
so they are back again at boost
(the problem with boost was the slow recompilation time with all the
gccxml parsing and a few other problems which maybe got resolved)

thanks for the info this py++ looks promising

 

[John Pye]

Check out this example from NumPy. This would be the way sanctioned by
the scipy community, as you benefit from a large library of matrix
routines that you can use to prepare/postprocess the data.

http://www.scipy.org/Cookbook/SWIG_and_NumPy

 

[Gabriel Genellina]

is there anyone here that calls C++ programs from python via swig? It

I suggest you read the responses to your previous question; also search
the list archives for this month.

 

[Frank]

I suggest you read the responses to your previous question; also search
the list archives for this month.

Hi Gabriel,

and I suggest you read the question I asked precisely!

Frank