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diff --git a/development/shiboken2/README b/development/shiboken2/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..b0bdb4829f --- /dev/null +++ b/development/shiboken2/README @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +Shiboken is a fundamental piece on the Qt for Python project that serves two purposes: + +- Generator: Extract information from C or C++ headers and generate CPython code that +allow to bring C or C++ projects to Python. This process uses a library called ApiExtractor +which internally uses Clang. + +- Module: An utility Python module that exposed new Python types, functions to handle pointers, +among other things, that is written in CPython and can use independently of the generator. + |