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Python wrapper for C++ STL?

Erno Kuusela erno-news at erno.iki.fi
Sat Dec 9 10:11:47 EST 2000 
In article <90t9n902p8r at news2.newsguy.com>, "Alex Martelli"
<aleaxit at yahoo.com> writes:

| I consider it pretty sad that I still have to code Python extensions in C,
| rather than C++, to ensure they're "taken seriously" by the Python
| community, actually.  I'll do it when I must (as I'm doing in gmpy), but,
| it *IS* a sad reflection on the state of the Python world:-).  Oh well,
| at least it can be 'full ISO C' (commonly still mis-called ANSI C:-) these
| days -- meaning the standard of 1989, of course (we wouldn't want to
| be TOO modern, now would we?-).

there's a running discussion on Advogato <URL:http://www.advogato.org/> on
this C++ issue. i found it very interesting.

  -- erno
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