I am working in a binding from C++ to Python by using Pybind11. Imagine that there are two C++ projects: Project A and Project B. Project A has already been bound to python. I installed this binding with a .whl by using pip. Project B is the C++ project I am creating myself and I want to bind to Python. I wrote a function whose return type is a complex type defined in Project A. I can get this in C++ by simply including its header like: #include "ProjectA/complexType.h". However, it is very difficult to expose this class to Python with the classic approach since it has a lot of attributes and methods. Furthermore I would not like to do it myself since it has been already done since Project A has already been bound previously. Is there any way in which I can reuse the binding of project A to make my project recognize this return type in python? P.S.: I leave here an example of Project B binding: #include <pybind11/pybind11.h> #include "ProjectA/complexType.h" namespace py = pybind11; complexType myfcn(const std::string &filename) { // Fcn body return complexTypeObject; } PYBIND11_MODULE(mymodule, m) { // Module doc m.doc() = "Doc."; // I do not want this since python cannot recognize the attributes of complexType. Also, // I do not want to bind this class again py::class_<ProjectA::complexType>(m, "complexType"); // Fcn binding: m.def("myfcn", &myfcn, "My fcn description"); } I want to bind a C++ function, whose return type is a data structure. One of the members of that structure is a complex type object that is defined in another binding. That other binding has been installed through a .whl by using pip. Continue reading...
