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Utility functions for interacting with ``py.js`` objects
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Essentially the ``py.js`` version of the Python C API, these functions
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are used to implement new ``py.js`` types or to interact with existing
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ones.
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They are prefixed with ``PY_``.
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.. function:: py.PY_call(callable[, args][, kwargs])
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Call an arbitrary python-level callable from javascript.
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:param callable: A ``py.js`` callable object (broadly speaking,
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either a class or an object with a ``__call__``
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method)
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:param args: javascript Array of :class:`py.object`, used as
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positional arguments to ``callable``
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:param kwargs: javascript Object mapping names to
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:class:`py.object`, used as named arguments to
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``callable``
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:returns: nothing or :class:`py.object`
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.. function:: py.PY_parseArgs(arguments, format)
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Arguments parser converting from the :ref:`user-defined calling
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conventions <types-methods-python-call>` to a JS object mapping
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argument names to values. It serves the same role as
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`PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords`_.
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::
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var args = py.PY_parseArgs(
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arguments, ['foo', 'bar', ['baz', 3], ['qux', "foo"]]);
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roughly corresponds to the argument spec:
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.. code-block:: python
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def func(foo, bar, baz=3, qux="foo"):
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pass
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.. note:: a significant difference is that "default values" will
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be re-evaluated at each call, since they are within the
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function.
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:param arguments: array-like objects holding the args and kwargs
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passed to the callable, generally the
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``arguments`` of the caller.
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:param format: mapping declaration to the actual arguments of the
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function. A javascript array composed of five
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possible types of elements:
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* The literal string ``'*'`` marks all following
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parameters as keyword-only, regardless of them
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having a default value or not [#kwonly]_. Can
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only be present once in the parameters list.
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* A string prefixed by ``*``, marks the positional
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variadic parameter for the function: gathers all
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provided positional arguments left and makes all
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following parameters keyword-only
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[#star-args]_. ``*args`` is incompatible with
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``*``.
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* A string prefixed with ``**``, marks the
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positional keyword variadic parameter for the
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function: gathers all provided keyword arguments
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left and closes the argslist. If present, this
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must be the last parameter of the format list.
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* A string defines a required parameter, accessible
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positionally or through keyword
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* A pair of ``[String, py.object]`` defines an
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optional parameter and its default value.
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For simplicity, when not using optional parameters
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it is possible to use a simple string as the format
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(using space-separated elements). The string will
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be split on whitespace and processed as a normal
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format array.
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:returns: a javascript object mapping argument names to values
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:raises: ``TypeError`` if the provided arguments don't match the
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format
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.. class:: py.PY_def(fn)
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Type wrapping javascript functions into py.js callables. The
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wrapped function follows :ref:`the py.js calling conventions
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<types-methods-python-call>`
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:param Function fn: the javascript function to wrap
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:returns: a callable py.js object
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.. [#kwonly] Python 2, which py.js currently implements, does not
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support Python-level keyword-only parameters (it can be
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done through the C-API), but it seemed neat and easy
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enough so there.
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.. [#star-args] due to this and contrary to Python 2, py.js allows
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arguments other than ``**kwargs`` to follow ``*args``.
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.. _PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords:
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http://docs.python.org/c-api/arg.html#PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords
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