This code allows you to access and use python code from a multithreaded C++ program. Its main purpose is to provide a temporary way to use the nupic library (https://github.com/numenta/nupic) from C++, until the official nupic.core (https://github.com/numenta/nupic.core) is extracted.

It assumes you have previously installed nupic (https://github.com/numenta/nupic) on your system.

In order to enable true multithreading with python, a special interface is used (implemented in myController.py) which manages a separate python process where the nupic algorithm is run. This works using polling the python interpreter from the C++ side to know when the python process has finished a job; each C++ thread will wait until their assigned process is ready in order to pass other commands.

• libboost-thread-dev (tested with version 1.46 of boost)
• libboost-python-dev (tested with version 1.46 of boost)
• libpython2.7

Go to the download directory (where CMakeLists.txt is located) and:

mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make
./testNupicWrapper

Important note: testNupicWrapper assumes it is being run in the build folder, so it searches for the python files in ../test/py/ folder