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Testing a C ++ Library with Python

I have a libfoo.so library created from C ++ code (compiled using gcc), and I would like to quickly test some of its exported classes (basically creating an instance of the class and then calling its methods to check the output).

So far I could do it in C / C ++ with a main file that references the appropriate library and build my tests, but I think it would be much easier if you could just call Python from the command line and call methods from there .

I know that I can use CDLL from ctypes to load C-style libraries, but is there any similar functionality for C ++ libraries and objects?

EDIT: Ideally, I do not want to change the C ++ code, I will need to use it as is.

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I agree with Chris. However, I want to note that Cython supports C ++ (with some limitations).

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Honestly, C ++ is a bit messy. You can do something like create a pure C function that wraps C ++ functionality (which you call from python), but at this point you can write your tests in C ++. Unfortunately, the only tool for this (that I know) is SWIG.

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