Calling python modules from C++ code

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Hey everyone.

I'm working on a side project where I want to have a main program that's written in C++. But I want the program to be expandable with modules that are small python scripts.

Ultimately I want to be able to both have my C++ code call into Python, and vice versa.

I've briefly looked at boost::python and the Python C/API. And while they seem to be solutions for either one of those, they do not seem to do both.

Can this be done in a way which is reasonable for a small-scale program?

Is Python not the best scripting language for this? Should I look at something else (like maybe Lua)? I'm open to suggestions.

Thanks.


EDIT:


Now that I look at Lua... it actually seems to be designed for exactly this. So I'm going to abandon Python and stick with Lua for this project.

Nevermind everyone!