Hi Everyone, wow! I am overwhelmed by the amount of response to this request. I looked at the other options and must say I agree with Jim Bosch' comment:
> The whole point of using numpy with C++ is to be able to go > from raw pointers to numpy arrays and back, and that doesn't seem to be > possible with an interface that just calls the Python API (as the > numeric interface does at present). for fast numerical calculations callbacks into Python are not a good option. In terms of the discussion concerning compiled or header only I think that although it would be nice and clean to have a header only library, as it stands boost python has to be compiled anyway and I think adding numpy as an optional dependency would not be bad because users who want to use this functionality by definition have numpy installed as well. I do think it would not be good to add it as a required dependency for boost python since numpy is (not yet) part of the Python standard library. Since I am not a core numpy or boost developer and have little experience working directly with the numpy C api any code contributions from me would probably be ugly. However I am keen to see numpy support in boost python as soon as possible and would like to help on for instance testing or writing documentation. I could probably also help to add the numpy support to the cmake builld system for boost. Kind regards, Pim Schellart _______________________________________________ Cplusplus-sig mailing list Cplusplus-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/cplusplus-sig
