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+Type conversions
+################
+
+Apart from enabling cross-language function calls, a fundamental problem
+that a binding tool like pybind11 must address is to provide access to
+native Python types in C++ and vice versa. There are three fundamentally
+different ways to do this—which approach is preferable for a particular type
+depends on the situation at hand.
+
+1. Use a native C++ type everywhere. In this case, the type must be wrapped
+   using pybind11-generated bindings so that Python can interact with it.
+
+2. Use a native Python type everywhere. It will need to be wrapped so that
+   C++ functions can interact with it.
+
+3. Use a native C++ type on the C++ side and a native Python type on the
+   Python side. pybind11 refers to this as a *type conversion*.
+
+   Type conversions are the most "natural" option in the sense that native
+   (non-wrapped) types are used everywhere. The main downside is that a copy
+   of the data must be made on every Python ↔ C++ transition: this is
+   needed since the C++ and Python versions of the same type generally won't
+   have the same memory layout.
+
+   pybind11 can perform many kinds of conversions automatically. An overview
+   is provided in the table ":ref:`conversion_table`".
+
+The following subsections discuss the differences between these options in more
+detail. The main focus in this section is on type conversions, which represent
+the last case of the above list.
+
+.. toctree::
+   :maxdepth: 1
+
+   overview
+   stl
+   functional
+   chrono
+   eigen
+   custom
+