running c++ code from python

Question

I want to execute a code helloword.cpp which takes in some argument from console parses those arguments and then prints \"hello world\" in the console.

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Answer 1

A couple of other options besides Boost.python are SIP and SWIG (Simplified Wrapper and Interface Generator). Like Boost, SIP and SWIG are open source.

SWIG is particularly powerful, but also a bit hairy. It provides support for interfacing C and C++ with a boatload of other languages including (not a complete list) Python, Perl, Lua, Tcl/Tk, Ocaml, Ruby, Java. One aspect of SWIG is that it parses your C++ headers. This has benefits and pitfalls. A benefit is that it does most of the work of generating the interfaces. A downside is that it doesn't handle some of the dark corners of C++ 2003, and it hasn't stepped up to C++11 at all. Another downside is that compilation of a large project becomes slow. Very, very slow.