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[Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>]

You have to pick something.

What would the benefits be with Boost Python?

/Anders

On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 02:10:03AM -0400, Faheem Mitha wrote:
> 
> 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.
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Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago
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