Lol very nice, only figured it out when tried pasting code in and saw the large amount of whitespace. Goes to show how little I know about c++ that I actually thought this was possible.

Which compiler do you use?

There are many blogs to teach a topic or a technique. And none of them is close to this one in terms of usefulness. Sir, you amazed me.

This is amazing, but how does c++ interpretate python objects?

What happens if you try to return python list or dictionary?

Can't check it on my own cause I don't have monitor atm :(

Cool post! BTW, this code with slight changes works in another compiler. 17088203

+1, Interesting. ;)

I wouldn't say that it's easier or shorter when we consider the template around the function itself, but I can see it having great application elsewhere — for example in bignum problems with not too tight time limits.

slycelote is trolling us. Just open his code in submissions list and scroll to the right)))

2 april mode on: It's possible

#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#define BOOST_PYTHON_STATIC_LIB
#pragma comment (lib, "python27.lib")
#include <boost/python.hpp>

using namespace std;
using namespace boost::python;

int main()
{
    Py_Initialize();
    try {
        object main_ns = import("__main__").attr("__dict__");
        cout << extract<char *>(eval("str(2 ** 1000)", main_ns));
    } catch (const error_already_set&) {
        PyErr_Print();
    }
}

Best April Fools Ever.

Luckily, I view the code on my cell-phone.