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Archive for September, 2007

ODEPACK re-released

Tuesday, September 25th, 2007 Posted in Software development | No Comments »

Minutes ago I uploaded a tarball containing my re-release of ODEPACK, a standard numerical tool for the solution of systems of ordinary differential equations. The algorithms and numerical code are identical to the distribution found on Netlib, but everything ...

Direct access to C++ containers from Python

Thursday, September 13th, 2007 Posted in Software development | No Comments »

In previous examples, I've shown how to pass Python lists into C++ using Boost.python. Because Python lists can contain a mixture of objects of different types, C++ has to use extract<type> to determine what kind of data to get ...