cppyy is an automatic, run-time, Python-C++ bindings generator, for calling C++ from Python and Python from C++. Run-time generation enables detailed specialization for higher performance, lazy loading for reduced memory use in large scale projects, Python-side cross-inheritance and callbacks for working with C++ frameworks, run-time template instantiation, automatic object downcasting, exception mapping, and interactive exploration of C++ libraries. cppyy delivers this without any language extensions, intermediate languages, or the need for boiler-plate hand-written code. For design and performance, see this PyHPC paper, albeit that the CPython/cppyy performance has been vastly improved since.
cppyy is based on Cling, the C++ interpreter, to match Python’s dynamism, interactivity, and run-time behavior.
cppyy is available for both CPython (v2 and v3) and PyPy, reaching C++-like performance with the latter. It makes judicious use of precompiled headers, dynamic loading, and lazy instantiation, to support C++ programs consisting of millions of lines of code and many thousands of classes. cppyy minimizes dependencies to allow its use in distributed, heterogeneous, development environments.
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