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POWhat is the simplest, most productive approach to create prototype-grade Python bindings for existing C/C++ libraries?
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copied!<p>I want to create simple prototype-grade Python bindings to evaluate various C/C++ libraries.</p> <p>I need to experiment on Linux, Windows and Mac.</p> <p>Some examples of the libs that I need bindings for include a mix of C or C++ libraries such as things like:</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.chokkan.org/software/cdbpp/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.chokkan.org/software/cdbpp/</a> </li> <li><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/dbh/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://sourceforge.net/projects/dbh/</a> </li> <li><a href="http://code.google.com/p/smhasher/wiki/MurmurHash3" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://code.google.com/p/smhasher/wiki/MurmurHash3</a> </li> <li><a href="http://www.seg.rmit.edu.au/zettair/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.seg.rmit.edu.au/zettair/</a></li> <li><a href="http://dbh.sourceforge.net/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://dbh.sourceforge.net/</a> </li> </ul> <p>There are several candidates out there, such as swig, ctypes, Boost.Python, pybindgen and questions were already posted here on the topic though the focus has been mostly on performance. <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/456884/extending-python-to-swig-or-not-to-swig">Extending python - to swig, not to swig or Cython</a> </p> <p>I care more about getting something simple and quickly than about performance.</p> <p>What would you recommend to pick for creating bindings quickly?</p>

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