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| From: | Abhinav Tripathi |
| Subject: | Re: Suggestion on priorities for improving pytave |
| Date: | Thu, 7 Jul 2016 21:52:55 +0530 |
On Jul 7, 2016 1:01 PM, "Colin Macdonald" <address@hidden> wrote:
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> At least for now, I think you're right.
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>> pystore ("var_with_req_name", req_octave_value);
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> Its possible that we don't want to expose such a thing (although we may want it internally).
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> Why? We don't really want the user to have to track a mental model of variables in Python space. She should just have some Octave objects (doubles, strings) and some @pyobjects (dicts, modules, whatever). And then do things to those objects.
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Ohk. I understand. But still, if it an extra feature and we don't let the user rely on it. It can be helpful?!
>> Maybe some kind of support for function kwargs as well? A scalar struct
>> to pass named parameters?
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>> This could prove to be a bit tricky. I tried but couldn't use map
>> unpacking to call a python function.
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> Please file an issue for this kwargs stuff. It'll be important, even if we can't do it right now.
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> Colin
Oh sorry. I think I missed kwargs thing and only remembered scalar struct thing.
I have used/created functions with variable arguments in c++ but never in python. I see how to do that.
I'll file an issues on bitbucket.
Abhinav
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