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C could be coupled analogously. If we wish to take advantage of constructors and destructors, we could write a thin C++ layer around the C interface.

Typed Memoryviews offer the interesting functionality to map and access memory buffers allocated by C/C++ directly in Python, without creating any overhead: http://cython.readthedocs.io/en/latest/src/userguide/memoryviews.html. They make it possible to map NumPy arrays directly to C++ arrays.