building boost::python

boost::python has some pretty good documentation, but it's not exactly easy to get up and running.

I started by building the provided examples, and ran into a bit of trouble.
http://www.boost.org/more/getting_started.html#Configuring has the list of supported toosets, and MSVC 2006 Express (aka VC8) has the toolset name vc-8_0

So I built the getting started examples like this:
bjam -sTOOLS=vc-8_0 test