SWIG VS cppimport

Compare SWIG vs cppimport and see what are their differences.

SWIG

SWIG is a software development tool that connects programs written in C and C++ with a variety of high-level programming languages. (by swig)

cppimport

Import C++ files directly from Python! (by tbenthompson)
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SWIG cppimport
25 -
5,499 1,145
1.4% -
9.7 0.0
1 day ago over 1 year ago
C++ Python
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later MIT License
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SWIG

Posts with mentions or reviews of SWIG. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-18.

cppimport

Posts with mentions or reviews of cppimport. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning cppimport yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing SWIG and cppimport you can also consider the following projects:

cffi

transitions - A lightweight, object-oriented finite state machine implementation in Python with many extensions

CppSharp - Tools and libraries to glue C/C++ APIs to high-level languages

blinker - A fast Python in-process signal/event dispatching system.

Cython - The most widely used Python to C compiler

Tryton - Mirror of tryton

djinni

itsdangerous - Safely pass trusted data to untrusted environments and back.

JavaCPP - The missing bridge between Java and native C++

JNA - Java Native Access

pluginbase - A simple but flexible plugin system for Python.