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[Florian Delizy <fdy@...>]

> I agree. I've used SWIG in a large C++ program with embedded python, and it was mostly not worth 
> the effort; we had to keep around some perl scripts to make the generated SWIG code & headers mesh 
> with the rest of the compile. not at all clean. That said, I don't know anything about boost.python 
> (other than that boost itself is quite huge - is this true for boost.python?)
well, it's not that big (you don't have to embeed the whole boost to get 
boost.python only)
> I have tried Lua and it is great (for an embedded scripting language) compared to python! small, 
> lightweight, simple, designed to be embedded, and no excess junk functionality. I also tried Java 
> (like Dick H), and it was a bit of a pain - but that was 4 years ago so I'm no expert. Lua has wx 
> bindings too.
Lua is good, but it lacks the object model, and that's much simpler to 
build. Anyway, i don't have time to bind something else, we'll see in a 
second time.

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Florian