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+PyCXX is designed to make it easier to extend Python with C++
+
+CXX/Objects is a set of C++ facilities to make it easier to write Python
+extensions. The chief way in which PyCXX makes it easier to write Python
+extensions is that it greatly increases the probability that your program
+will not make a reference-counting error and will not have to continually
+check error returns from the Python C API. CXX/Objects integrates Python
+with C++ in these ways:
+ + C++ exception handling is relied on to detect errors and clean up. In a
+ complicated function this is often a tremendous problem when writing in C.
+ With PyCXX, we let the compiler keep track of what objects need to be
+ dereferenced when an error occurs.
+ + The Standard Template Library (STL) and its many algorithms plug and
+ play with Python containers such as lists and tuples.
+ + The optional CXX/Extensions facility allows you to replace the clumsy C
+ tables with objects and method calls that define your modules and
+ extension objects.
+
+The original source will install CXX source code needed to help building
+python/C++ extension under /usr/share/python2.6/CXX which is a standard
+Debian directory. As Slackware does not have /usr/share/python2.6, I
+patched the installer to use /usr/share/CXX in order to follow the style of
+stock python packages like pygobject or pygtk. Be aware, though, that
+python packages that will use PyCXX will probably look for the needed files
+under the Debian standard path! You should investigate if their setup.py
+accept any switch to setup a different search path otherwise you will have
+to patch them.
+
+This requires pysetuptools.