[ITK-users] [ITK] Suggestions about Python wrapping of cpp project

[Matt McCormick]

Hi,

I'm a little late to the party on this thread, but I would recommend
creating the .wrap files for ITK module code.  For code that is not as
highly templated, XDress [1] is another option to keep in mind.

Matt

[1] http://xdress.org/

On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 11:11 AM, Satyananda Kashyap
<ksatyananda at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am looking for your expert opinions here. I have a relatively large C++
> project I am working on which uses ITK mainly (hence the question here) and
> to some extent VTK and OpenCV. I do think that my code is fairly well
> written. I was thinking of wrapping my code to python using either SWIG or
> boost.python. Here are my questions :
>
>
> 1. I am led to believe that prototyping and code development is much faster
> in Python. Given that I have such a big cpp base code is it really worth the
> effort to wrap into python and then continue there.
>
> 2. From what I have read ITK uses SWIG wrappings for wrapping into Python
> while VTK uses the boost.python route. My initial attempts with both have
> been relatively unsuccessful. Any opinion on which one is more user
> friendly/better when I have to wrap my own custom classes which use a
> combination of both ITK and VTK in them.
>
> 3. Any suggestion on a road map as to how to proceed. I am not sure at what
> base class level I should wrap them and rewrite the dependencies in python.
>
> Thanks,
> Regards,
> Kashyap
>
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