Cppyy – Automatic Python-C++ bindings

How does this know the difference between:

  const char *cls::func(void)
  {
     return "abc"; // static: caller must not free
  }

  const char *cls::func(void)
  {
     return strdup("abc"); // caller must free
  }

Modern C++ meaning, no pointers anywhere.

There is also the less known https://github.com/google/clif (but not automatic)

From the comments below, it sounds like interfacing my C++ code with python using Cppyy would sacrifice performance.

Even so this will be awesome for unit testing. I really like the testing interface pytest provides, along with its parametrized tests.

Anyone else using python to test the logic their C/C++ code? I can't think of how I would test the memory allocation and freeing portion. Anyone think it's a bad idea?

This is super interesting but if I am looking to bring C++ into my Python code base it would be because performance is important enough to do so. With that in mind I am not sure how this stacks up against compiled half steps like Cython or foreign function interfaces likes ctypes or CFFI instead.

I need to create Python bindings for a C++ library and after a brief survey of the available options was planning on using SWIG (http://www.swig.org/tutorial.html). How does this compare?

Does anyone know of any well known tools that generate bindings in other languages e.g., Python from C++ code?

IIUC, this tool does the opposite i.e., generate C++/other language bindings from Python

> PyPy 5.7 and 5.8 have a built-in module cppyy.

Nice.

How does this compare to pybind11?

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