How to bring your C++ project to Python land
summary
Shows how a C++ codebase becomes a Python extension by comparing approaches and real numbers: hand‑written CPython wrappers, SWIG (generated wrappers balloon to 3490 lines), Boost.Python, and modern tools like pybind11 and the Clang‑driven generator used to produce Shiboken XML type descriptions. Covers ownership and API adjustments, outputs CPython modules, and demos a reimplemented glob: Python glob ~12 s, pathlib ~7–8 s, the C++ accelerated version under <1s, confirming the approach works.
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chapters (16)
- 0:00Introduction
- 6:28How to create a Python model
- 9:25What about Python
- 12:10What is the magic
- 14:04Audio Documentation
- 16:55C Types
- 17:24Sip
- 17:54See
- 18:27Use case
- 18:37glob
- 19:06directory
- 19:28path
- 19:58data directory
- 21:14recursive
- 22:28summary
- 22:58questions
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