1[preface Introduction 2[quickbook 1.6] 3] 4 5[section Synopsis] 6 7Welcome to version 2 of Boost.Python, a C++ library which enables seamless interoperability between C++ and the Python programming language. The new version has been rewritten from the ground up, with a more convenient and flexible interface, and many new capabilities, including support for: 8 9 * References and Pointers 10 * Globally Registered Type Coercions 11 * Automatic Cross-Module Type Conversions 12 * Efficient Function Overloading 13 * C++ to Python Exception Translation 14 * Default Arguments 15 * Keyword Arguments 16 * Manipulating Python objects in C++ 17 * Exporting C++ Iterators as Python Iterators 18 * Documentation Strings 19 20The development of these features was funded in part by grants to Boost Consulting from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories and by the Computational Crystallography Initiative at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories. 21 22[endsect] 23[section Articles] 24 25"Building Hybrid Systems With Boost Python", by Dave Abrahams and Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve (PDF) 26[endsect] 27