Passing numpy arrays between Python and c++ using Cython is a handy way of taking advantage of the ease and flexibility of python with the speed of c++.

This code illustrates how simple it is to pass n-dimensional (or in this case 2D) numpy arrays from python to c++ vectors and back, allowing computationally expensive code to be easily written in c++ and linked to high level python code.

The example code is hosted as a gist here and is an adaption from the standard Cython example  but also includes the 2D numpy example

Rectangle.cpp and Rectangle.h is a an example c++ class to be wrapped

This is wrapped using cython with an interface file rect.pyx and compiled using setup.py in the standard cython way using the command:

python setup.py build_ext --inplace

Then run the demo:

python python_test.py

Shows the standard examples as well as how to pass 2D arrays between python and cython

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