Claudius Schnörr wrote:

I would like to build a python-interface for a C++-template library I wrote.

After looking around a bit, besides Boost-python I found swig and weave, which seem to have a similar purpose in mind!?!

I would appreciate it if someone could provide some comparing hints/links/information about these various solutions (I'm new to all these packages). How do they differ in terms of - the learning curve, - their capabilities and - their foci ?

Have you seen this one - http://www.boost.org/libs/python/doc/comparisons.html? It's more than 1 year old, though, so things might have changed since then. In general, it's better to ask Boost.Python-related questions here - http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/c++-sig. For one, you are much likely to get a quicker response :). Aleksey