Boost.Python example

boost_python_example.cpp

//------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// C++ module  xxx.h, xxx.cpp
//------------------------------------------------------------------------------
#include <string>
#include <boost/regex.hpp>
#include <boost/locale.hpp>
#include <boost/foreach.hpp>
#include <boost/algorithm/string.hpp>

class PhoneExtractor
{
public:
    //.............
    std::list<std::string> extract(const std::string&, ExtractMode mode);
    //.............
};

//.............

std::list<std::string> PhoneExtractor::extract(const std::string &str, ExtractMode mode)
{
//.............
}

//------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// end of C++ module 
//------------------------------------------------------------------------------


//------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Export to python
//------------------------------------------------------------------------------
#include <boost/python.hpp>

boost::python::list normalize(const std::string &phones)
{
// TODO: error, pass vector to python::list 
    PhoneExtractor extractor;
    return  boost::python::list(extractor.extract(phones, PhoneExtractor::StrictMode));
}

BOOST_PYTHON_MODULE(phones_utils)
{
    def("normalize", normalize);
}

/*

BUILD: 

g++ -g -shared -fPIC -I/usr/include/python2.7 phones_utils.cpp  -lboost_regex -lboost_python -o phones_utils.so

USAGE:

import phones_utils

phones = phones_utils.normalize('84951234567')

*/