Introduction

What is Pyste?

Pyste is a Boost.Python code generator. The user specifies the classes and functions to be exported using a simple interface file, which following the Boost.Python's philosophy, is simple Python code. Pyste then uses GCCXML to parse all the headers and extract the necessary information to automatically generate C++ code.

Example

Let's borrow the class World from the tutorial:

    struct World
    {
        void set(std::string msg) { this->msg = msg; }
        std::string greet() { return msg; }
        std::string msg;
    };

Here's the interface file for it, named world.pyste:

    Class("World", "world.h")

and that's it!

The next step is invoke Pyste in the command-line:

python pyste.py --module=hello world.pyste

this will create a file "hello.cpp" in the directory where the command was run.

Pyste supports the following features:

• Functions
• Classes
• Class Templates
• Virtual Methods
• Overloading
• Attributes
• Enums (both "free" enums and class enums)
• Nested Classes
• Support for boost::shared_ptr and std::auto_ptr
• Global Variables

Copyright © 2003 Bruno da Silva de Oliveira
Copyright © 2002-2003 Joel de Guzman

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