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+/*
+
+Copyright (C) 2017 Mike Miller
+
+This file is part of Pytave.
+
+Pytave is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
+Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your
+option) any later version.
+
+Pytave is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
+ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
+FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License
+for more details.
+
+You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+along with Pytave; see the file COPYING.  If not, see
+<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+*/
+
+#if defined (HAVE_CONFIG_H)
+#  include <config.h>
+#endif
+
+#include <Python.h>
+
+#include "oct-py-init.h"
+
+// FIXME: the following are only needed for Boost.Python library and NumPy
+// library initialization
+#define PYTAVE_DO_DECLARE_SYMBOL
+#include <boost/python.hpp>
+#include "arrayobjectdefs.h"
+
+namespace pytave
+{
+
+  void
+  py_init ()
+  {
+    Py_Initialize ();
+
+    // FIXME: these are only needed for Boost.Python implicit conversion
+    // of Octave arrays to NumPy arrays
+    boost::python::numeric::array::set_module_and_type ("numpy", "ndarray");
+    _import_array ();
+  }
+
+}