Is PyD working?

[Kirk McDonald]

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).
> 

I've committed an update to Pyd which fixes this issue, but reverts (the 
least important) part of the symbol-length-shortening code.

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Kirk McDonald
http://kirkmcdonald.blogspot.com
Pyd: Connecting D and Python
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