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+# Bits & Bytes Article (to be moved to the docs eventually)
+
+## Introduction
+
+With the popularity and success of the python programming language, it has become increasingly important for researches to be able to make software developments available to the python eco-system by means of extension packages. To this end, [Pybind11](https://github.com/pybind/pybind11) library provides a convenient approach to generate python bindings of existing C++ code. In this context, the [sciki-build](https://github.com/scikit-build/scikit-build) project can be used to bridge python's `setuptools` with [CMake](https://cmake.org/). As a resuls, CMake's features such as, e.g., choice of build-generators, dependency management or cross-compilation, can be exploited from within the installation process of the developed python extension.
+
+## Installation
+
+scikit-build is available from the 'Python Package Index' and can be installed with
+```
+pip install scikit-build
+```
+
+## Basic Usage
+
+scikit-build provides a drop-in replacement for the `setuptools.setup` function that can be used in a project's `setup.py` via
+
+```python
+from skbuild import setup
+```
+
+Beside the standard setuptools options, it provides [extra options](https://scikit-build.readthedocs.io/en/latest/usage.html#scikit-build-options) to control the CMake build. 
+
+
+
+A minimal 'hello-world' example is provided [here](sebak/pybind11-hello-world). 
+
+
+*Sebastian Kehl, Klaus Reuter*