Converting C++ to Python

It would be hard to answer such question. As if getting knowledge required excuses... But usually, "converting" is a bad idea. The language is valuable only if it supports some different way of thinking... —SA

I agree 100%.

I know precious little about Python other than that it sucks but I have heard that if you want to connect C++ and Python together there is a Boost library to help with that, presumably Boost::python. I would start at http://wiki.python.org/moin/boost.python/GettingStarted

You first problem here is not become a Python poser being a C++ fan at heart. :-) That's why "conversion" is, maybe, not a good idea. —SA

You can call functions in a C-DLL from python using the ctypes python library. Or you can spawn process and get return values using the subprocess python module. And/or you can invoke the python interpreter from C. There are all kinds of ways to interoperate C/C++ and python. I'd look into doing that rather converting everything to python.