Wrapping openbabel in python - accessing C++ via boost with setup.py

Update I have de-contrived the example below. After some struggle, I've managed to accomplish this seemingly simple task: wrap a friendly open-source library inside python and make it a python module. Such wrapping is handy, because it retains the speed of c++ inside of python.
If you want to check out how to do more or less the same thing with cython instead of boost see this.
So here is the setup.py

// Comment
#! /usr/bin/python

from ez_setup import use_setuptools
use_setuptools()
from setuptools import setup, Extension

import sys, os
import glob

include_dirs = []

if __name__ == '__main__':

    extensions = [Extension('_boostbabel',['src/boostbabel.cpp'],
                            include_dirs+['src/boostbabel/', '/usr/include/openbabel-2.0/'],
                            language="c++", libraries=['boost_python', 'openbabel']),
                  ]
    setup(name              = 'boostbabel',
          ext_package       = 'boostbabel',
          ext_modules       = extensions,
          zip_safe = False,     # as a zipped egg the *.so files are not found (at least in Ubuntu/Linux)
          )

Relative to setup.py we have the actual source: src/boostbabel.cpp Now I know nothing about building/linking/including, so getting to that stage was pretty hard. Being the lazy one, I wonder if there isn't a way to guess all of the includes and libs used to init the Extension object by being clever in parsing the actual boostbabel.cpp? Nooope, there isn't for the general case.