Source: cppimport Section: python Priority: optional Maintainer: Debian Python Team Uploaders: Joshua Peisach Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13), dh-python, dh-sequence-python3, python3-all-dev, python3-filelock, python3-mako, python3-pybind11, python3-pytest, python3-setuptools, python3-setuptools-scm, Standards-Version: 4.6.1 Homepage: https://github.com/tbenthompson/cppimport Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/packages/cppimport Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/packages/cppimport.git Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-python Rules-Requires-Root: no Package: python3-cppimport Architecture: all Depends: python3-mako, python3-pybind11, ${python3:Depends}, ${misc:Depends} Description: cppimport - Import C++ directly from Python! (Python 3) Sometimes Python just isn't fast enough. Or you have existing code in a C++ library. cppimport combines the process of compiling and importing an extension in Python so that you can type modulename = cppimport.imp("modulename") and not have to worry about multiple steps. . cppimport looks for a C or C++ source file that matches the requested module. If such a file exists, the file is first run through the Mako templating system. The compilation options produced by the Mako pass are then used to compile the file as a Python extension. The extension (shared library) that is produced is placed in the same folder as the C++ source file. Then, the extension is loaded. . Most cppimport users combine it with pybind11, but you can use a range of methods to create your Python extensions. Raw C extensions, Boost.Python, SWIG all work.