[gyrovagueGeist]

Cython is the most general tool. It can be used to do anything from making bindings from C/Cpp to Python, Python to C/Cpp, to writing compiled “Python-like” code in an intermediate layer that can be used for managing your wrappers or just writing performant code.

If you just want the ability to provide a Python interface to a C/Cpp library PyBind11 will get you there in fewer LoC than Cython. Nanobind is an even lighter weight option.

I’ve heard Swig is a pain to use.

[bippingchip]

Thank you! Swig indeed can be a pain but having used it before I have become somewhat blind to it. But eg smart pointers are not easy to deal with well, I’ve found out recently… I’ll have a look at pybind11. I’ve worked on Cython codebases too, which indeed allows to really nicely compile Python code and interact with c code. It does get weird when using eg pyqt and native qt…