Is PyD working?

[Kirk McDonald]

Bill Baxter wrote:
> Kirk McDonald wrote:
> 
>> Bill Baxter wrote:
>>
>>> Kirk McDonald wrote:
>>>
>>>> Bill Baxter wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Anyone had any luck building the PyD examples with a recent 
>>>>> checkout of PyD from SVN?
>>>>>
>>>>> The 'hello' example works fine, but the samples that use wrap_class 
>>>>> don't.
>>>>>
>>>>> I posted on the PyD forum a few days back but no response, hence 
>>>>> the post here to see if anyone knows anything about the situation.
>>>>>
>>>>> --bb
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Heh. I don't check that forum very often. :-)
>>>>
>>>> It compiled the last time I tried. Give me a little while, and I'll 
>>>> double check that I haven't broken things horribly.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks.  It compiles, it just generates a runtime error saying it 
>>> can't convert the Py class to a D class.
>>>
>>> I spent about 30 minutes trying to debug it, but there's way too much 
>>> going on there in that class wrapping stuff for me to spot the problem.
>>>
>>> FWIW, I'm on WinXP with Python 2.5, DMD 1.020
>>>
>>> --bb
>>
>>
>> I have tracked down what I think is the precise problem: Instantiating 
>> a class with an Init!() specified from Python doesn't work. (The 
>> resulting Python object is useless.) I'm tentatively putting it down 
>> to the stuff I did recently to soften the symbol length issues. I'll 
>> be changing a bunch of that stuff back, and seeing if that fixes it.
>>
>> This probably means the symbol length stuff won't get resolved until 
>> __traits is up to snuff (which should solve the problem entirely).
>>
> 
> Of course that'll mean PyD is D 2.x only.  :-(
> 
> --bb

I should be able to keep it working in 1.x. It just means that, if you 
use 1.x, you could get symbol length issues.

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Kirk McDonald
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