EuroPython 2019 🐍 🇨🇭

Unleash the power of C++ in Python

"A guide through the bindings generation process"

This repository has all the content of the talk from the conference.

Examples

The examples contain a simple implementation of a Hello World written in C and C++, then a basic implementation using different tools is used to expose the function to Python.

• cpython, using a simple raw CPython implementation for the function.
• ctypes, to load the shared library (not used in the talk).
• Boost::python
• SWIG
• shiboken
• pyBind11
• cffi
• cppyy
• sip

A more useful example related to glob is included too in the directory fastglob. This example uses the <filesystem> C++ library to achieve a similar result as glob and Pathlib.glob.

• fastglob, directory with the implementation of the module.
• data, 1000 directories with 1000 empty files each.
• glob_list.py, listing using glob.
• pathlib_list.py, listing using Pathlib.
• fastglob_list.py, listing using fastglob.
• benchmark_1.sh, benchmark using /usr/bin/time.
• benchmark_2.py, benchmark using time.

Slides

You can check the slides here! to write them I used reveal.js.