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pygccxml
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pygccxml is a specialized XML reader that reads the output from CastXML. It provides a simple framework to navigate C++ declarations, using Python classes.
Using pygccxml you can:
Install instructions can be found here <http://pygccxml.readthedocs.io/en/master/install.html>__.
pygccxml is compatible with Python 3.9, 3.10, 3.11, 3.12, 3.13 and pypy3.
The documentation can be found here <http://pygccxml.readthedocs.io>, examples can be found here <http://pygccxml.readthedocs.io/en/master/examples.html>.
You can also run an example JupyterLab Notebook using Binder, or view it using
nbviewer:
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Developers: See .binder/README.md for more information.
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If you want to know more about the API provided by pygccxml, read the query interface <http://pygccxml.readthedocs.io/en/develop/query_interface.html>__ document or the API documentation <http://pygccxml.readthedocs.io/en/develop/apidocs/modules.html>__.
A FAQ <http://pygccxml.readthedocs.io/en/master/faq.html>__ is also available and may answer some of your questions.
Boost Software License <http://boost.org/more/license_info.html>__
For issues with pygccxml you can open an issue here <https://github.com/CastXML/pygccxml/issues/>__.
For issues with CastXML you can open an issue here <https://github.com/CastXML/CastXML>__.
You can contact us through the CastXML mailing list <http://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/castxml/>__.
The stable version can be found on the master branch.
The develop branch contains the latest improvements but can be unstable. Pull Requests should be done on the develop branch.
Running the test suite is done with:
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pytest tests
FAQs
Python package for easy C++ declarations navigation.
We found that pygccxml demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 4 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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