Welcome to PyBindGen’s documentation!

Contents:

• PyBindGen Tutorial
  • What is PyBindGen ?
  • Work flows
  • A simple example
    • Code generation script
    • Building it (GCC instructions)
    • Building it (MSVC instructions)
    • Testing it
  • Wrapping types by value
    • Primitive types
    • Enum types
    • Compound types
    • C++ classes
    • C++ namespaces
  • Memory management for pointer types
    • Function returns pointer
    • Function takes pointer
    • A reference-counted object
    • A STL container
  • Advanced usage
    • Basic interface with error handling
    • Header file scanning with (py)gccxml
    • Header file scanning with (py)gccxml: python intermediate file
• PyBindGen API Reference
  • Higher layers
    • module: generate Python modules and submodules
    • function: C/C++ function wrappers
    • enum: wrap enumrations
    • cppclass: wrap C++ classes or C structures
    • cppmethod: wrap class methods and constructors
    • cppattribute: wrap class/instance attributes
    • cppexception: translate C++ exceptions into Python
    • container: wrap STL containers
    • gccxmlparser: scan header files to extract API definitions
    • settings: pybindgen global settings
  • Lower layers
    • utils: internal utilities
    • typehandlers.base: abstract base classes for type handlers and wrapper generators
    • cppclass_typehandlers: type handlers for C++ classes (or C structures)
    • typehandlers.codesink: classes that receive generated source code

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page