github.com/kaydxh/golang@v0.0.131/pkg/gocv/cgo/third_path/pybind11/docs/limitations.rst (about) 1 Limitations 2 ########### 3 4 Design choices 5 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 6 7 pybind11 strives to be a general solution to binding generation, but it also has 8 certain limitations: 9 10 - pybind11 casts away ``const``-ness in function arguments and return values. 11 This is in line with the Python language, which has no concept of ``const`` 12 values. This means that some additional care is needed to avoid bugs that 13 would be caught by the type checker in a traditional C++ program. 14 15 - The NumPy interface ``pybind11::array`` greatly simplifies accessing 16 numerical data from C++ (and vice versa), but it's not a full-blown array 17 class like ``Eigen::Array`` or ``boost.multi_array``. ``Eigen`` objects are 18 directly supported, however, with ``pybind11/eigen.h``. 19 20 Large but useful features could be implemented in pybind11 but would lead to a 21 significant increase in complexity. Pybind11 strives to be simple and compact. 22 Users who require large new features are encouraged to write an extension to 23 pybind11; see `pybind11_json <https://github.com/pybind/pybind11_json>`_ for an 24 example. 25 26 27 Known bugs 28 ^^^^^^^^^^ 29 30 These are issues that hopefully will one day be fixed, but currently are 31 unsolved. If you know how to help with one of these issues, contributions 32 are welcome! 33 34 - Intel 20.2 is currently having an issue with the test suite. 35 `#2573 <https://github.com/pybind/pybind11/pull/2573>`_ 36 37 - Debug mode Python does not support 1-5 tests in the test suite currently. 38 `#2422 <https://github.com/pybind/pybind11/pull/2422>`_ 39 40 - PyPy3 7.3.1 and 7.3.2 have issues with several tests on 32-bit Windows. 41 42 Known limitations 43 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 44 45 These are issues that are probably solvable, but have not been fixed yet. A 46 clean, well written patch would likely be accepted to solve them. 47 48 - Type casters are not kept alive recursively. 49 `#2527 <https://github.com/pybind/pybind11/issues/2527>`_ 50 One consequence is that containers of ``char *`` are currently not supported. 51 `#2245 <https://github.com/pybind/pybind11/issues/2245>`_ 52 53 - The ``cpptest`` does not run on Windows with Python 3.8 or newer, due to DLL 54 loader changes. User code that is correctly installed should not be affected. 55 `#2560 <https://github.com/pybind/pybind11/issue/2560>`_ 56 57 Python 3.9.0 warning 58 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 59 60 Combining older versions of pybind11 (< 2.6.0) with Python on exactly 3.9.0 61 will trigger undefined behavior that typically manifests as crashes during 62 interpreter shutdown (but could also destroy your data. **You have been 63 warned**). 64 65 This issue was `fixed in Python <https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/22670>`_. 66 As a mitigation for this bug, pybind11 2.6.0 or newer includes a workaround 67 specifically when Python 3.9.0 is detected at runtime, leaking about 50 bytes 68 of memory when a callback function is garbage collected. For reference, the 69 pybind11 test suite has about 2,000 such callbacks, but only 49 are garbage 70 collected before the end-of-process. Wheels (even if built with Python 3.9.0) 71 will correctly avoid the leak when run in Python 3.9.1, and this does not 72 affect other 3.X versions.