Calling cpp from python/SWIG

[Frank]

Hi,

I have the following problem:

I want to parse an array M1 from python to a cpp function fct which
returns an array M2.

How can I do this best? Is SWIG appropriate or is there something
else?

If someone could give some code example or a link to a page with
examples, that would be great!

Thanks to all!

Frank

[Gabriel Genellina]

En Tue, 13 Mar 2007 03:33:43 -0300, Frank <su******@gmail.comescribió:

I want to parse an array M1 from python to a cpp function fct which
returns an array M2.

How can I do this best? Is SWIG appropriate or is there something
else?

If you're going to call a single function, declare it with extern "C" (or
write a wrapper function) and use ctypes from Python.
Try to keep the memory allocation in Python: instead of returning another
array, make the function use the *same* input array, or give it -from
Python- a previously allocated array.
ctypes comes with Python 2.5, and you can download and install it for
previous versions too.

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Gabriel Genellina