Pyd: Stackthreads and returning arrays from D

[Kirk McDonald]

Simen Haugen wrote:
> Pyd doesn't work with stackthreads in newers versions of the dmd compiler 
> (1.014+ at least). As I understand from the documentation and my testing, 
> this means I cannot return arrays from D to Python (and renders Pyd quite 
> useless for me).
> 
> "Pyd uses StackThreads for its iteration wrapping support. By setting this 
> to False, opApply wrapping, Iter, and AltIter will be unavailable."
> 
> Has anyone found a simple workaround for this?
> 
> 

No, StackThreads has nothing to do with arrays. It is strictly for 
wrapping opApply overloads in classes. Currently, Pyd will convert D 
arrays to Python lists (except for char[] and wchar[], which are 
converted to the Python str and unicode types, respectively). Because 
this is a less-than-optimal solution in a number of ways, I plan on 
eventually writing a Python type that wraps D arrays more directly.

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Kirk McDonald
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