Index

1. Tutorial: Swig

• in todays tutorial we will explore how to produce a shared library in C/C++ and allow Python to call the shared library
  • we will pass a range of datatypes from Python to C/C++
• build the swig example mymodule from the lecture this week
• now extend mymodule to calculate the value of sin(x*pi/2)
  • allow Python to call this function
• extend the module further to implement a function to print out the contents of a string
  • allow Python to call this function
• finally consider how you might implement a new module to add two 3d matrices together and return the result
  • try to make it as elegant as possible

2. Conclusion

• you should have understood how shared libraries are created and how Python can access them
• you will probably appreciate the effort involved to make the solutions elegant (via the 3d matrix example)

Index

This document was produced using groff-1.22.