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[Faheem Mitha <faheem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I've seen some discussion recently on this list about using SWIG.

I was curious if Boost Python has been considered, and why the DOLFIN 
developers had decided to go with SWIG over the other options.

I have used Boost Python some. It is very powerful, though I think it is 
more manual in its approach than SWIG. The major problem with using it is 
the rather inadequate documentation. I have figured out how to use much of 
it through guesswork and experimentation. Once one figures it out, it 
works very well. It has a very complete C++ interface with Python. There 
is also a Boost Python code generator called Pyste.
                                                                  Faheem.