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  21 <span class="firstname">David</span> <span class="surname">Abrahams</span>
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  24 <span class="firstname">Stefan</span> <span class="surname">Seefeld</span>
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  28       Abrahams, Stefan Seefeld</p></div>
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  43     Welcome to Boost.Python, a C++ library which enables seamless interoperability
  44     between C++ and the Python programming language. The library includes support
  45     for:
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  49         References and Pointers
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  52         Globally Registered Type Coercions
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  55         Automatic Cross-Module Type Conversions
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  58         Efficient Function Overloading
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  61         C++ to Python Exception Translation
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  64         Default Arguments
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  67         Keyword Arguments
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  70         Manipulating Python objects in C++
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  73         Exporting C++ Iterators as Python Iterators
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  76         Documentation Strings
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  80     The development of these features was funded in part by grants to <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">Boost</span> <span class="identifier">Consulting</span></code>
  81     from the <a href="http://www.llnl.gov" target="_top">Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories</a>
  82     and by the <a href="http://cci.lbl.gov" target="_top">Computational Crystallography Initiative</a>
  83     at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories.
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 125     by Dave Abrahams and Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve
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