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Author SHA1 Message Date
Tim Ohliger
1b7aa0bb66
feat: rework of arg/return type hints to support .noconvert() (#5486)
* Added rework of arg/return typing

* Changed `Path` to `pathlib.Path` for compatibility with pybind11-stubgen

* Removed old arg/return type hint implementation

* Added noconvert support for arg/return type hints

* Added commented failing tests for Literals with special characters

* Added return_descr/arg_descr for correct typing in typing::Callable

* Fixed clang-tidy issues

* Changed io_name to have explicit return type (for C++11 support)

* style: pre-commit fixes

* Added support for nested callables

* Fixed missing include

* Fixed is_return_value constructor call

* Fixed clang-tidy issue

* Uncommented test cases for special characters in literals

* Moved literal tests to correct test case

* Added escaping of special characters in typing::Literal

* Readded mistakenly deleted bracket

* Moved sanitize_string_literal to correct namespace

* Added test for Literal with `!` and changed StringLiteral template param name

* Added test for Literal with multiple and repeated special chars

* Simplified string literal sanitization function

* Added test for `->` in literal

* Added test for `->` with io_name

* Removed unused parameter name to prevent warning

* Added escaping of `-` in literal to prevent processing of `->`

* Fixed wrong computation of sanitized string literal length

* Added cast to prevent error with MSVC

* Simplified special character check

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Co-authored-by: pre-commit-ci[bot] <66853113+pre-commit-ci[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
2025-01-24 17:01:06 -05:00
Tim Ohliger
1d09fc8300
Option for arg/return type hints and correct typing for std::filesystem::path (#5450)
* Added arg/return type handling.

* Added support for nested arg/return type in py::typing::List

* Added support for arg/return type in stl/filesystem

* Added tests for arg/return type in stl/filesystem and py::typing::List

* Added arg/return name to more py::typing classes

* Added arg/return type to Callable[...]

* Added tests for typing container classes (also nested)

* Changed typing classes to avoid using C++14 auto return type deduction.

* Fixed clang-tidy errors.

* Changed Enable to SFINAE

* Added test for Tuple[T, ...]

* Added RealNumber with custom caster for testing typing classes.

* Added tests for Set, Iterable, Iterator, Union, and Optional

* Added tests for Callable

* Fixed Callable with ellipsis test

* Changed TypeGuard/TypeIs to use return type (being the narrower type) + Tests

* Added test for use of fallback type name with stl vector

* Updated documentation.

* Fixed unnecessary constructor call in test.

* Fixed reference counting in example type caster.

* Fixed clang-tidy issues.

* Fix for clang-tidy

* Updated cast method to use pybind11 API rather than Python C API in custom caster example

* Updated load to use pybind11 API rather than Python C API in custom caster example

* Changed test of arg/return name to use pybind11 API instead of Python C API

* Updated code in adcanced/cast example and improved documentation text

* Fixed references in custom type caster docs

* Fixed wrong logical and operator in test

* Fixed wrong logical operator in doc example

* Added comment to test about `float` vs `float | int`

* Updated std::filesystem::path docs in cast/overview section

* Remove one stray dot.

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Co-authored-by: Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve <rgrossekunst@nvidia.com>
2024-12-08 11:30:49 -08:00
Henry Schreiner
9966ad409d
fix: allow -Wpedantic in C++20 mode (#5322)
* fix: allow -Wpedantic again

Signed-off-by: Henry Schreiner <henryschreineriii@gmail.com>

* tests: ignore pedantic warning for PYBIND11_DECLARE_HOLDER_TYPE

Signed-off-by: Henry Schreiner <henryschreineriii@gmail.com>

* tests: try just turning off pedantic for one file

Signed-off-by: Henry Schreiner <henryschreineriii@gmail.com>

* tests: only run pedantic in C++20 mode

Signed-off-by: Henry Schreiner <henryschreineriii@gmail.com>

* Update tests/local_bindings.h

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Signed-off-by: Henry Schreiner <henryschreineriii@gmail.com>
2024-08-22 00:27:50 -04:00
pwdcd
0116906189
chore: remove repetitive words (#5308)
Signed-off-by: pwdcd <pwdcd@icloud.com>
2024-08-13 22:04:10 -07:00
Tim Stumbaugh
cca4c51ca4
Update errors in string "Explicit conversions" docs (#4658)
`PyUnicode_DecodeLatin1` requires you to pass in the `error`
parameter. The code as it is in the docs didn't compile.

There is a reference leak in the example
code. `PyUnicode_DecodeLatin1` returns a new reference. Calling
`py::str(PyObject*)` calls `PyObject_Str`, which also returns a new
reference. That reference is managed by the `py::str`
constructor (which correctly steals the reference, using the
`stolen_t` constructor), but the original reference returned by
`PyUnicode_DecodeLatin1` is never decref'd: it never makes it into an
`object`, and it's never manually decremented.

This fixes both of those issues. The code compiles, and I viewed the
sphinx docs locally.
2023-05-09 07:04:20 -07:00
Thomas Eding
f8e8403b85
Open pybind11 namespace with consistent visility. (#4098) 2022-08-01 11:31:31 -07:00
Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve
a97e9d8cac
Dropping MSVC 2015 (#3722)
* Changing `_MSC_VER` guard to `< 1910` (dropping MSVC 2015).

* Removing MSVC 2015 from ci.yml, and .appveyor.yml entirely.

* Bringing back .appveyor.yml from master.

* appveyor Visual Studio 2017

* 1st manual pass, builds & tests with unix_clang, before pre-commit.

* After clang-format (via pre-commit).

* Manual pass looking for "2015", builds & tests with unix_clang, before pre-commit.

* Backtracking for include/pybind11 changes in previous commit.

git checkout d07865846c include/pybind11/attr.h include/pybind11/detail/common.h include/pybind11/functional.h

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CI #4160 errors observed:

2a26873727
https://github.com/pybind/pybind11/runs/5168332130?check_suite_focus=true

$ grep ' error C' *.txt | sed 's/2022-02-12[^ ]*//' | sed 's/^[0-9][0-9]*//' | sed 's/^.*\.txt: //' | sort | uniqD:\a\pybind11\pybind11\include\pybind11\cast.h(1364,1): error C2752: 'pybind11::detail::type_caster<Eigen::Ref<Eigen::Vector3f,0,pybind11::EigenDStride>,void>': more than one partial specialization matches the template argument list [D:\a\pybind11\pybind11\build\tests\pybind11_tests.vcxproj]

d:\a\pybind11\pybind11\include\pybind11\detail/common.h(1023): error C2737: 'pybind11::overload_cast': 'constexpr' object must be initialized [D:\a\pybind11\pybind11\build\tests\cross_module_gil_utils.vcxproj]
d:\a\pybind11\pybind11\include\pybind11\detail/common.h(1023): error C2737: 'pybind11::overload_cast': 'constexpr' object must be initialized [D:\a\pybind11\pybind11\build\tests\pybind11_cross_module_tests.vcxproj]
d:\a\pybind11\pybind11\include\pybind11\detail/common.h(1023): error C2737: 'pybind11::overload_cast': 'constexpr' object must be initialized [D:\a\pybind11\pybind11\build\tests\pybind11_tests.vcxproj]
d:\a\pybind11\pybind11\include\pybind11\detail/common.h(1023): error C2737: 'pybind11::overload_cast': 'constexpr' object must be initialized [D:\a\pybind11\pybind11\build\tests\test_embed\external_module.vcxproj]
D:\a\pybind11\pybind11\include\pybind11\detail/common.h(624): fatal error C1001: Internal compiler error. [D:\a\pybind11\pybind11\build\tests\pybind11_tests.vcxproj]
D:\a\pybind11\pybind11\include\pybind11\detail/common.h(624): fatal error C1001: Internal compiler error. [D:\a\pybind11\pybind11\tests\pybind11_tests.vcxproj]

$ grep ': error C2737' *.txt | sed 's/^.*MSVC//' | sed 's/___.*//' | sort | uniq

_2017

$ grep ': error C2752' *.txt

3______3.8_____MSVC_2019_____x86_-DCMAKE_CXX_STANDARD=17.txt:2022-02-12T16:12:45.9921122Z D:\a\pybind11\pybind11\include\pybind11\cast.h(1364,1): error C2752: 'pybind11::detail::type_caster<Eigen::Ref<Eigen::Vector3f,0,pybind11::EigenDStride>,void>': more than one partial specialization matches the template argument list [D:\a\pybind11\pybind11\build\tests\pybind11_tests.vcxproj]

$ grep ': fatal error C1001:' *.txt

10______pypy-3.8-v7.3.7_____windows-2022_____x64.txt:2022-02-12T16:12:56.3163683Z D:\a\pybind11\pybind11\include\pybind11\detail/common.h(624): fatal error C1001: Internal compiler error. [D:\a\pybind11\pybind11\tests\pybind11_tests.vcxproj]
1______3.6_____MSVC_2019_____x86.txt:2022-02-12T16:12:47.6774625Z D:\a\pybind11\pybind11\include\pybind11\detail/common.h(624): fatal error C1001: Internal compiler error. [D:\a\pybind11\pybind11\build\tests\pybind11_tests.vcxproj]
16______3.6_____windows-latest_____x64_-DPYBIND11_FINDPYTHON=ON.txt:2022-02-12T16:12:27.0556151Z D:\a\pybind11\pybind11\include\pybind11\detail/common.h(624): fatal error C1001: Internal compiler error. [D:\a\pybind11\pybind11\tests\pybind11_tests.vcxproj]
17______3.9_____windows-2019_____x64.txt:2022-02-12T16:12:30.3822566Z D:\a\pybind11\pybind11\include\pybind11\detail/common.h(624): fatal error C1001: Internal compiler error. [D:\a\pybind11\pybind11\tests\pybind11_tests.vcxproj]
2______3.7_____MSVC_2019_____x86.txt:2022-02-12T16:12:38.7018911Z D:\a\pybind11\pybind11\include\pybind11\detail/common.h(624): fatal error C1001: Internal compiler error. [D:\a\pybind11\pybind11\build\tests\pybind11_tests.vcxproj]
6______3.6_____windows-2022_____x64.txt:2022-02-12T16:12:00.4513642Z D:\a\pybind11\pybind11\include\pybind11\detail/common.h(624): fatal error C1001: Internal compiler error. [D:\a\pybind11\pybind11\tests\pybind11_tests.vcxproj]
7______3.9_____windows-2022_____x64.txt:2022-02-12T16:11:43.6306160Z D:\a\pybind11\pybind11\include\pybind11\detail/common.h(624): fatal error C1001: Internal compiler error. [D:\a\pybind11\pybind11\tests\pybind11_tests.vcxproj]
8______3.10_____windows-2022_____x64.txt:2022-02-12T16:11:49.9589644Z D:\a\pybind11\pybind11\include\pybind11\detail/common.h(624): fatal error C1001: Internal compiler error. [D:\a\pybind11\pybind11\tests\pybind11_tests.vcxproj]
9______pypy-3.7-v7.3.7_____windows-2022_____x64.txt:2022-02-12T16:11:53.7912112Z D:\a\pybind11\pybind11\include\pybind11\detail/common.h(624): fatal error C1001: Internal compiler error. [D:\a\pybind11\pybind11\tests\pybind11_tests.vcxproj]

* common.h: is_template_base_of

* Re-applying 4 changes from 2a26873727 that work universally.

* `overload_cast = {};` only for MSVC 2017 and Clang 5

* Refining condition for using is_template_base_of workaround.

* Undoing MSVC 2015 workaround in test_constants_and_functions.cpp

* CentOS7: silence_unused_warnings

* Tweaks in response to reviews.

* Adding windows-2022 C++20

* Trying another way of adding windows-2022 C++20
2022-02-14 11:36:22 -08:00
Henry Schreiner
522c59ceb2
chore: drop Python 3.5 (#3719)
* chore: drop Python 3.5 support

* chore: more fstrings with flynt's help

* ci: drop Python 3.5

* chore: bump dependency versions

* docs: touch up py::args

* tests: remove deprecation warning

* Ban smartquotes

* Very minor tweaks (by-product of reviewing PR #3719).

Co-authored-by: Aaron Gokaslan <skylion.aaron@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve <rwgk@google.com>
2022-02-11 19:06:16 -05:00
Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve
6493f496e3
Python 2 removal part 1: tests (C++ code is intentionally ~untouched) (#3688)
* `#error BYE_BYE_GOLDEN_SNAKE`

* Removing everything related to 2.7 from ci.yml

* Commenting-out Centos7

* Removing `PYTHON: 27` from .appveyor.yml

* "PY2" removal, mainly from tests. C++ code is not touched.

* Systematic removal of `u` prefix from `u"..."` and `u'...'` literals. Collateral cleanup of a couple minor other things.

* Cleaning up around case-insensitive hits for `[^a-z]py.*2` in tests/.

* Removing obsolete Python 2 mention in compiling.rst

* Proper `#error` for Python 2.

* Using PY_VERSION_HEX to guard `#error "PYTHON 2 IS NO LONGER SUPPORTED.`

* chore: bump pre-commit

* style: run pre-commit for pyupgrade 3+

* tests: use sys.version_info, not PY

* chore: more Python 2 removal

* Uncommenting Centos7 block (PR #3691 showed that it is working again).

* Update pre-commit hooks

* Fix pre-commit hook

* refactor: remove Python 2 from CMake

* refactor: remove Python 2 from setup code

* refactor: simplify, better static typing

* feat: fail with nice messages

* refactor: drop Python 2 C++ code

* docs: cleanup for Python 3

* revert: intree

revert: intree

* docs: minor touchup to py2 statement

Co-authored-by: Henry Schreiner <henryschreineriii@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Aaron Gokaslan <skylion.aaron@gmail.com>
2022-02-10 18:28:08 -08:00
Henry Schreiner
39fbc7992b
fix: avoiding usage of _ if already defined (#3423)
* fix: avoid usage of _

* ci: test _ defined

* docs: include change in docs

* fix: add a test and comment

* refactor: const_str -> const_name
2021-12-21 14:24:21 -05:00
ngc92
56322dafc9
fixed include for filesystem::path (#3482) 2021-11-18 14:06:04 -05:00
Guillaume Jacquenot
e450eb62c2
Removed duplicated word in docs/advanced/cast/eigen.rst (#3458) 2021-11-12 10:53:43 -05:00
Aaron Gokaslan
0fb981b219
Add blacken-docs and pycln pre-commit hooks (#3292)
* Apply blacken-docs and fix language-hints

* Add blacken-docs pre-commit hook

* Add pycln pre-commit hook

* Enable a few builtin hooks

* Black no longer ignores pyi files
2021-09-22 15:38:50 -04:00
Antony Lee
5bcaaa0423
Add a std::filesystem::path <-> os.PathLike caster. (#2730) 2021-07-02 07:00:50 -07:00
Yannick Jadoul
1faf4a8ae4
docs: the order of alternatives for variant types matters, and follows the same rules as overload resolution (#2784) 2021-01-13 23:17:27 -05:00
Yannick Jadoul
b70894df52
docs: add std::valarray to docs/advanced/cast/stl.rst (#2547) 2020-10-04 09:52:55 -04:00
Yannick Jadoul
d65e34d61d
Resolve empty statement warning when using PYBIND11_OVERLOAD_PURE_NAME and PYBIND11_OVERLOAD_PURE (#2325)
* Wrap PYBIND11_OVERLOAD_NAME and PYBIND11_OVERLOAD_PURE_NAME in do { ... } while (false), and resolve trailing semicolon

* Deprecate PYBIND11_OVERLOAD_* and get_overload in favor of PYBIND11_OVERRIDE_* and get_override

* Correct erroneous usage of 'overload' instead of 'override' in the implementation and internals

* Fix tests to use non-deprecated PYBIND11_OVERRIDE_* macros

* Update docs to use override instead of overload where appropriate, and add warning about deprecated aliases

* Add semicolons to deprecated PYBIND11_OVERLOAD macros to match original behavior

* Remove deprecation of PYBIND11_OVERLOAD_* macros and get_overload

* Add note to changelog and upgrade guide
2020-09-15 14:56:20 +02:00
Henry Schreiner
f12ec00d70
feat: py::type::of<T>() and py::type::of(h) (#2364)
* feat: type<T>()

* refactor: using py::type as class

* refactor: py::object as base

* wip: tigher api

* refactor: fix conversion and limit API further

* docs: some added notes from @EricCousineau-TRI

* refactor: use py::type::of
2020-09-14 18:06:26 -04:00
Henry Schreiner
37f845a1dc
ci: disallow some common capitalization mistakes (#2472)
* ci: only annotate linux for now

* style: block some common mistakes
2020-09-08 15:26:50 +02:00
Henry Schreiner
d8c7ee00a6
ci: GHA basic format & pre-commit (#2309) 2020-07-20 13:35:21 -04:00
Wenzel Jakob
a54eab92d2 Revert "Change __init__(self) to __new__(cls)"
This reverts commit 9ed8b44033.
2020-04-26 22:53:50 +02:00
Orell Garten
9ed8b44033 Change __init__(self) to __new__(cls)
__init__(self) cannot return values. According to https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2491819/how-to-return-a-value-from-init-in-python __new__(cls) should be used, which works.
2020-04-26 09:21:42 +02:00
phil-zxx
c6b699d9c2 Added ability to convert from datetime.date to system_clock::time_point (#1848)
* Added ability to convert from Python datetime.date and datetime.time to C++ system_clock::time_point
2019-07-19 11:28:48 +02:00
Darius Arnold
09330b94ea Fix typos in documentation (#1635)
* Always capitalize Eigen

* Fix spelling
2019-06-10 21:57:00 +02:00
Wenzel Jakob
64205140bd added std::deque to overview.rst
[ci skip]
2018-11-16 06:46:48 +01:00
voxmea
17983e7425 Adds type_caster support for std::deque. (#1609)
* Adds std::deque to the types supported by list_caster in stl.h.
* Adds a new test_deque test in test_stl.{py,cpp}.
* Updates the documentation to include std::deque as a default
  supported type.
2018-11-16 06:45:19 +01:00
Antony Lee
55dc131944 Clarify docs for functions taking bytes and not str. 2018-05-24 11:09:41 -03:00
luzpaz
4b874616b2 Misc. typos (#1384)
Found via `codespell`
2018-05-06 10:54:10 -03:00
Jason Rhinelander
e88656ab45 Improve macro type handling for types with commas
- PYBIND11_MAKE_OPAQUE now takes ... rather than a single argument and
  expands it with __VA_ARGS__; this lets templated, comma-containing
  types get through correctly.
- Adds a new macro PYBIND11_TYPE() that lets you pass the type into a
  macro as a single argument, such as:

      PYBIND11_OVERLOAD(PYBIND11_TYPE(R<1,2>), PYBIND11_TYPE(C<3,4>), func)

  Unfortunately this only works for one macro call: to forward the
  argument on to the next macro call (without the processor breaking it
  up again) requires also adding the PYBIND11_TYPE(...) to type macro
  arguments in the PYBIND11_OVERLOAD_... macro chain.
- updated the documentation with these two changes, and use them at a couple
  places in the test suite to test that they work.
2018-03-10 14:24:23 -04:00
Unknown
0b3f44ebdf Trivial typos
Non-user facing. 
Found using `codespell -q 3`
2017-11-01 22:48:36 -03:00
Dean Moldovan
93528f57f3 Document that type_caster requires default-constructible types
[skip ci]
2017-08-28 14:58:11 +02:00
Dean Moldovan
db46a89d96 Update changelog for v2.2.0
[skip ci]
2017-08-21 00:59:48 +02:00
Patrik Huber
d265933d85 Fix typos in Eigen documentation
Fixes one small variable name typo, and two instances where `py::arg().nocopy()` is used, where I think it should be `py::arg().noconvert()` instead. Probably `nocopy()` was the old/original name for it and then it was changed.
2017-08-19 15:31:32 -04:00
Dean Moldovan
7918bcc95b Add support for boost::variant in C++11 mode
In C++11 mode, `boost::apply_visitor` requires an explicit `result_type`.
This also adds optional tests for `boost::variant` in C++11/14, if boost
is available. In C++17 mode, `std::variant` is tested instead.
2017-08-12 21:27:44 +02:00
Jason Rhinelander
ebd6ad588b Fix boost::variant example to not forward args
boost::apply_visitor accepts its arguments by non-const lvalue
reference, which fails to bind to an rvalue reference.  Change the
example to remove the argument forwarding.
2017-08-07 15:48:49 -04:00
Jason Rhinelander
7437c69500 Add py::module_local() attribute for module-local type bindings
This commit adds a `py::module_local` attribute that lets you confine a
registered type to the module (more technically, the shared object) in
which it is defined, by registering it with:

    py::class_<C>(m, "C", py::module_local())

This will allow the same C++ class `C` to be registered in different
modules with independent sets of class definitions.  On the Python side,
two such types will be completely distinct; on the C++ side, the C++
type resolves to a different Python type in each module.

This applies `py::module_local` automatically to `stl_bind.h` bindings
when the container value type looks like something global: i.e. when it
is a converting type (for example, when binding a `std::vector<int>`),
or when it is a registered type itself bound with `py::module_local`.
This should help resolve potential future conflicts (e.g. if two
completely unrelated modules both try to bind a `std::vector<int>`.
Users can override the automatic selection by adding a
`py::module_local()` or `py::module_local(false)`.

Note that this does mildly break backwards compatibility: bound stl
containers of basic types like `std::vector<int>` cannot be bound in one
module and returned in a different module.  (This can be re-enabled with
`py::module_local(false)` as described above, but with the potential for
eventual load conflicts).
2017-08-04 10:47:34 -04:00
Dean Moldovan
83e328f58c Split test_python_types.cpp into builtin_casters, stl and pytypes 2017-06-27 10:38:41 +02:00
Dean Moldovan
2bde61500d Fix invalid reference definition in string conversion docs
[skip ci]
2017-06-25 17:35:44 +02:00
Jason Rhinelander
f42af24a7d Support std::string_view when compiled under C++17 2017-06-24 03:24:56 -03:00
Jason Rhinelander
220a77f5cd Endian wording fix 2017-06-24 03:24:56 -03:00
Jason Rhinelander
aee409dc8d Fix strings.rst style
Wrapped long lines and removed a few trailing spaces.
2017-06-24 03:24:56 -03:00
Dean Moldovan
443ab5946b Replace PYBIND11_PLUGIN with PYBIND11_MODULE
This commit also adds `doc()` to `object_api` as a shortcut for the
`attr("__doc__")` accessor.

The module macro changes from:
```c++
PYBIND11_PLUGIN(example) {
    pybind11::module m("example", "pybind11 example plugin");
    m.def("add", [](int a, int b) { return a + b; });
    return m.ptr();
}
```

to:

```c++
PYBIND11_MODULE(example, m) {
    m.doc() = "pybind11 example plugin";
    m.def("add", [](int a, int b) { return a + b; });
}
```

Using the old macro results in a deprecation warning. The warning
actually points to the `pybind11_init` function (since attributes
don't bind to macros), but the message should be quite clear:
"PYBIND11_PLUGIN is deprecated, use PYBIND11_MODULE".
2017-05-29 03:21:19 +02:00
Dean Moldovan
4ffa76ec56 Add type caster for std::variant and other variant-like classes 2017-04-29 17:31:30 +02:00
Jason Rhinelander
17d0283eca Eigen<->numpy referencing support
This commit largely rewrites the Eigen dense matrix support to avoid
copying in many cases: Eigen arguments can now reference numpy data, and
numpy objects can now reference Eigen data (given compatible types).

Eigen::Ref<...> arguments now also make use of the new `convert`
argument use (added in PR #634) to avoid conversion, allowing
`py::arg().noconvert()` to be used when binding a function to prohibit
copying when invoking the function.  Respecting `convert` also means
Eigen overloads that avoid copying will be preferred during overload
resolution to ones that require copying.

This commit also rewrites the Eigen documentation and test suite to
explain and test the new capabilities.
2017-02-24 23:19:50 +01:00
Wenzel Jakob
baec23c2d4 minor stl caster clarifications 2017-02-17 12:59:32 +01:00
Jason Rhinelander
11a337f16f Unicode fixes and docs (#624)
* Propagate unicode conversion failure

If returning a std::string with invalid utf-8 data, we currently fail
with an uninformative TypeError instead of propagating the
UnicodeDecodeError that Python sets on failure.

* Add support for u16/u32strings and literals

This adds support for wchar{16,32}_t character literals and the
associated std::u{16,32}string types.  It also folds the
character/string conversion into a single type_caster template, since
the type casters for string and wstring were mostly the same anyway.

* Added too-long and too-big character conversion errors

With this commit, when casting to a single character, as opposed to a
C-style string, we make sure the input wasn't a multi-character string
or a single character with codepoint too large for the character type.

This also changes the character cast op to CharT instead of CharT& (we
need to be able to return a temporary decoded char value, but also
because there's little gained by bothering with an lvalue return here).

Finally it changes the char caster to 'has-a-string-caster' instead of
'is-a-string-caster' because, with the cast_op change above, there's
nothing at all gained from inheritance.  This also lets us remove the
`success` from the string caster (which was only there for the char
caster) into the char caster itself.  (I also renamed it to 'none' and
inverted its value to better reflect its purpose).  The None -> nullptr
loading also now takes place only under a `convert = true` load pass.
Although it's unlikely that a function taking a char also has overloads
that can take a None, it seems marginally more correct to treat it as a
conversion.

This commit simplifies the size assumptions about character sizes with
static_asserts to back them up.
2017-02-14 11:08:19 +01:00
jbarlow83
40db2c757a RFC - Add documentation for strings and Unicode issues (#636)
* Add documentation for strings and Unicode issues

* More Unicode documentation on character literals and wide characters
2017-02-02 13:56:31 +01:00
Dean Moldovan
57a9bbc6c7 Automate generation of reference docs with doxygen and breathe (#598)
* Make 'any' the default markup role for Sphinx docs

* Automate generation of reference docs with doxygen and breathe

* Improve reference docs coverage
2017-01-31 16:54:08 +01:00
myd7349
9b815ad2e9 Docs: Fix several errors of examples from the doc (#592)
* [Doc] Fix several errors of examples from the doc

* Add missing operator def.

* Added missing `()`

* Add missing `namespace`.
2017-01-13 11:15:52 +01:00
Wenzel Jakob
8fadade225 add valarray to documentation, update docutils on travis 2016-12-09 16:08:16 +01:00