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**pybind11** is a lightweight header library that exposes C++ types in Python
**pybind11** is a lightweight header-only library that exposes C++ types in Python
and vice versa, mainly to create Python bindings of existing C++ code. Its
goals and syntax are similar to the excellent
[Boost.Python](http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_58_0/libs/python/doc/) library
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become an excessively large and unnecessary dependency.
Think of this library as a tiny self-contained version of Boost.Python with
everything stripped away that isn't relevant for binding generation. The whole
codebase requires less than 3000 lines of code and only depends on Python (2.7
or 3.x) and the C++ standard library. This compact implementation was possible
thanks to some of the new C++11 language features (tuples, lambda functions and
everything stripped away that isn't relevant for binding generation. The core
header files only require ~2K lines of code and depend on Python (2.7 or 3.x)
and the C++ standard library. This compact implementation was possible thanks
to some of the new C++11 language features (tuples, lambda functions and
variadic templates). Since its creation, this library has grown beyond
Boost.Python in many ways, leading to dramatically simpler binding code in many
common situations.
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- Python's slice-based access and assignment operations can be supported with
just a few lines of code.
- Everything is contained in just a few header files; there no need to link
against any additional libraries.

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Welcome to pybind11's documentation!
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pybind11 --- Seamless operability between C++11 and Python
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About this project
==================
**pybind11** is a lightweight header library that exposes C++ types in Python
**pybind11** is a lightweight header-only library that exposes C++ types in Python
and vice versa, mainly to create Python bindings of existing C++ code. Its
goals and syntax are similar to the excellent `Boost.Python`_ library by David
Abrahams: to minimize boilerplate code in traditional extension modules by
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become an excessively large and unnecessary dependency.
Think of this library as a tiny self-contained version of Boost.Python with
everything stripped away that isn't relevant for binding generation. The whole
codebase requires less than 3000 lines of code and only depends on Python (2.7
or 3.x) and the C++ standard library. This compact implementation was possible
thanks to some of the new C++11 language features (tuples, lambda functions and
everything stripped away that isn't relevant for binding generation. The core
header files only require ~2K lines of code and depend on Python (2.7 or 3.x)
and the C++ standard library. This compact implementation was possible thanks
to some of the new C++11 language features (tuples, lambda functions and
variadic templates). Since its creation, this library has grown beyond
Boost.Python in many ways, leading to dramatically simpler binding code in many
common situations.
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- Python's slice-based access and assignment operations can be supported with
just a few lines of code.
- Everything is contained in just a few header files; there no need to link
against any additional libraries.