c++2py: a C++/Python interfacing tool

This TRIQS tool aims at generating the necessary wrapping code between C++ and Python. Wrapping C++ functions and classes in Python is a non trivial problem because the two languages are quite different (e.g. C++ uses typically value semantics, while Python uses only counted documentation/manual/triqss, the C++ equivalent of std::shared_ptr).

This tool has the following main features:

• it is entirely automatic in most cases, i.e. except for some advanced features that require additionnal inputs.
• it is quite flexible.
• it can be used with a magic cell command in the Python notebook.

• The cfunction class
• The class_ class
• Convertion vs wrapping
  • Wrapping classes from C++ to Python
  • Convertion
• Magic for Jupyter notebook
• The module_ class
• General organization
• Python API of the desc file
  • The module_ class
  • The cfunction class
  • The class_ class
• Tutorial
  • A first example
• Wrapping classes from C++ to Python