Howdy folks

I am new around these parts and looking forward to getting stuck into some D development. Really liking it so far, just one some questions though... I am working on a project that did not sit well with me when I tried it in Python. I need static typing (above and beyond MyPy, as nice as that is) and the extra speed from D is a bonus.

However, there are some nice libraries in Python I would still like to use (Spacy for example) and I have played around with Pyd to see if I can get it working with Python 3.x. Unfortunately the documentation and examples in the Pyd repo presume more knowledge than I have. I have looked around this forum and there are tantalising snippets of conversation that suggest Pyd will work with some C based extensions of Python... I just cannot get it to work myself.

So does anyone have any sample code, pointers or tips on using Pyd with something like Spacy? Is this possible, or even desirable?

I have a fallback position for now in that I can wrap my Python scripts in something like Fire (https://google.github.io/python-fire/guide/) and create an external process from D, but that seems a bit less efficient. Either that or REST services/ZeroMQ middleware, but they all add complexity.

Idle speculation and suggestions welcome!

Cheers

Seamus

On Friday, 20 January 2023 at 00:39:47 UTC, Seamus wrote:

Honestly in my opinion PyD looks kinda abounded.
I don’t know how much effort you need to spend to run spaCy.
Just to be sure that you’ve seen this documentation https://pyd.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html

Also probably if you will find C API (as it is written in Cython) it will be possible to make bindings for them using dstep, ctod or ImportC tools.

Or maybe it is possible to prepare D bindings like someone did for other C-like languages:
https://github.com/d99kris/spacy-cpp
https://github.com/AMArostegui/SpacyDotNet

On Friday, 20 January 2023 at 00:39:47 UTC, Seamus wrote:

Have you tried this? https://github.com/symmetryinvestments/autowrap

Thanks for all the suggestions folks!
I will take a look. Cheers.