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diff --git a/sources/shiboken2/doc/index.rst b/sources/shiboken2/doc/index.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..4cc5b204e --- /dev/null +++ b/sources/shiboken2/doc/index.rst @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +Shiboken the Binding Generator +******************************* + +Shiboken is the CPython-based binding code generator for C or C++ libraries. +It uses an ApiExtractor library to parse the C or C++ headers and get the +type information, using Clang. The library can also be used to parse non-Qt +projects. The following diagram summarizes Shiboken's role in the PySide +project. + +.. image:: images/qtforpython-underthehood.png + +A typesystem file (XML) is used to specify the types to be exposed to Python +and to apply modifications to properly represent and manipulate the types in +the Python World. For example, you can remove and add methods to certain types, +and also modify the arguments of each method. Such actions are inevitable to +properly handle the data structures or types. + +The final outcome of this process is a set of wrappers written in CPython, +which can be used as a module in your python code. + +Refer to the following topics for more information and examples: + +.. toctree:: + :maxdepth: 1 + + overview + samplebinding + contents |