* Make reference(_internal) the default return value policy for properties
Before this, all `def_property*` functions used `automatic` as their
default return value policy. This commit makes it so that:
* Non-static properties use `reference_interal` by default, thus
matching `def_readonly` and `def_readwrite`.
* Static properties use `reference` by default, thus matching
`def_readonly_static` and `def_readwrite_static`.
In case `cpp_function` is passed to any `def_property*`, its policy will
be used instead of any defaults. User-defined arguments in `extras`
still have top priority and will override both the default policies and
the ones from `cpp_function`.
Resolves#436.
* Almost always use return_value_policy::move for rvalues
For functions which return rvalues or rvalue references, the only viable
return value policies are `copy` and `move`. `reference(_internal)` and
`take_ownership` would take the address of a temporary which is always
an error.
This commit prevents possible user errors by overriding the bad rvalue
policies with `move`. Besides `move`, only `copy` is allowed, and only
if it's explicitly selected by the user.
This is also a necessary safety feature to support the new default
return value policies for properties: `reference(_internal)`.
The current integer caster was unnecessarily strict and rejected
various kinds of NumPy integer types when calling C++ functions
expecting normal integers. This relaxes the current behavior.
Currently pybind11 doesn't check when you define a new object (e.g. a
class, function, or exception) that overwrites an existing one. If the
thing being overwritten is a class, this leads to a segfault (because
pybind still thinks the type is defined, even though Python no longer
has the type). In other cases this is harmless (e.g. replacing a
function with an exception), but even in that case it's most likely a
bug.
This code doesn't prevent you from actively doing something harmful,
like deliberately overwriting a previous definition, but detects
overwriting with a run-time error if it occurs in the standard
class/function/exception/def registration interfaces.
All of the additions are in non-template code; the result is actually a
tiny decrease in .so size compared to master without the new test code
(977304 to 977272 bytes), and about 4K higher with the new tests.
type_caster_generic::cast(): The values of
wrapper->value
wrapper->owned
are incorrect in the case that a return value policy of 'copy' is
requested but there is no copy-constructor. (Similarly 'move'.) In
particular, if the source object is a static instance, the destructor of
the 'object' 'inst' leads to class_::dealloc() which incorrectly
attempts to 'delete' the static instance.
This commit re-arranges the code to be clearer as to what the values of
'value' and 'owned' should be in the various cases. Behaviour is
different to previous code only in two situations:
policy = copy but no copy-ctor: Old code leaves 'value = src, owned =
true', which leads to trouble. New code leaves 'value = nullptr, owned
= false', which is correct.
policy = move but no move- or copy-ctor: old code leaves 'value = src,
owned = true', which leads to trouble. New code leaves 'value =
nullptr, owned = false', which is correct.
With this there is no more need for manual user declarations like
`PYBIND11_DECLARE_HOLDER_TYPE(T, std::shared_ptr<T>)`. Existing ones
will still compile without error -- they will just be ignored silently.
Resolves#446.
This prevents unwanted conversions to bool or int such as:
```
py::object my_object;
std::cout << my_object << std::endl; // compiles and prints 0 or 1
int n = my_object; // compiles and is nonsense
```
With `explicit operator bool()` the above cases become compiler errors.
We have various classes that have non-explicit constructors that accept
a single argument, which is implicitly making them implicitly
convertible from the argument. In a few cases, this is desirable (e.g.
implicit conversion of std::string to py::str, or conversion of double
to py::float_); in many others, however, it is unintended (e.g. implicit
conversion of size_t to some pre-declared py::array_t<T> type).
This disables most of the unwanted implicit conversions by marking them
`explicit`, and comments the ones that are deliberately left implicit.
This convenience function ensures that a py::object is either a
py::array, or the implementation will try to convert it into one. Layout
requirements (such as c_style or f_style) can be also be provided.
This patch adds an extra base handle parameter to most ``py::array`` and
``py::array_t<>`` constructors. If specified along with a pointer to
data, the base object will be registered within NumPy, which increases
the base's reference count. This feature is useful to create shallow
copies of C++ or Python arrays while ensuring that the owners of the
underlying can't be garbage collected while referenced by NumPy.
The commit also adds a simple test function involving a ``wrap()``
function that creates shallow copies of various N-D arrays.
Python 3.5 can often import pybind11 modules compiled compiled for
Python 3.4 (i.e. all symbols can be resolved), but this leads to crashes
later on due to changes in various Python-internal data structures. This
commit adds an extra sanity check to prevent a successful import when
the Python versions don't match.
This fixes an issue that can arise when forwarding (*args, **kwargs)
captured from a pybind11-bound function call to another Python function.
When the initial function call includes no keyword arguments, the
py::kwargs field is set to nullptr and causes a crash later on.
PR #425 removed the bool operator from attribute accessors. This is
likely in use by existing code as it was the only way before #425 added
the `hasattr` function to check for the existence of an attribute, via:
if (obj.attr("foo")) { ... }
This commit adds it back in for attr and item accessors, but with a
deprecation warning to use `hasattr(obj, ...)` or `obj.contains(...)`
instead.
`auto var = l[0]` has a strange quirk: `var` is actually an accessor and
not an object, so any later assignment of `var = ...` would modify l[0]
instead of `var`. This is surprising compared to the non-auto assignment
`py::object var = l[0]; var = ...`.
By overloading `operator=` on lvalue/rvalue, the expected behavior is
restored even for `auto` variables.
This also adds the `hasattr` and `getattr` functions which are needed
with the new attribute behavior. The new functions behave exactly like
their Python counterparts.
Similarly `object` gets a `contains` method which calls `__contains__`,
i.e. it's the same as the `in` keyword in Python.
