Sip is a tool for generating bindings for c++ classes with some ideas borrowed from swig, but capable of tighter bindings because of its specificity towards c++ and python.

sip was originally designed to generate python bindings for kde and so has explicit support for the signal slot mechanism used by the qt/kde class libraries.

features:
- connecting qt signals to python functions and class methods
- connecting python signals to qt slots
- overloading virtual member functions with python class methods
- protected member functions
- abstract classes
- enumerated types
- global class instances
- static member functions.
this package contains sipdistutils and the development headers needed to develop python bindings with sip.