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Passing wrapped julia objects with pyfunction and pyfunctionret

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For performance reasons I would like to wrap Julia functions I am using in Python with the `PyCall.pyfunctionret` and `PyCall.pyfunction` wrappers. One of my Julia functions returns an object that is explicitly not converted to a python object using the `PyCall.pyfunctionret` function. Now I would like to pass this object back into Julia and wrap the function with the `PyCall.pyfunction` wrapper.

The following example works, but from my understanding it does not actually benefit much from using the `pyfunction` wrapper, since I have to use the `PyAny` type and PyCall would still have to infer the type of the object. I would like to specify something more specific than `PyAny` in my call to `pyfunction`.

So I have this in julia:
```
function example(firstnumber, secondnumber)
return Float64[firstnumber, secondnumber]
end

function useobject(obj::Vector{Float64})
println("this is the object:", obj)
end
```

And in python:
```
from julia import Main
Main.eval('using PyCall; include("juliafunctions.jl")')

jl_function = Main.eval("pyfunctionret(example, Any, Float64, Float64)")

# These two work as expected - the first returns a converted python object
# (which is a numpy array in this case) and the second returns a simple
# wrapped julia object.
python_object = Main.example(1, 2)
jl_object = jl_function(1, 2)

# Now here is my problem. This works, but I would like to replace
# PyAny here, to avoid the automatic type inference pyjulia has to do in
# this case:
jl_secondfunction = Main.eval("pyfunction(useobject, PyAny)")
jl_secondfunction(jl_object)
```
I also tried `pyfunction(useobject, PyObject)` but that just doesn't work at all and I tried `pyfunction(useobject, Any)`, which comes slightly closer to what I want because it passes the wrapped python object into Julia. However, that fails since it doesn't find the correct method for type PyObject.

My questions are the following:
- Is my understanding of pyfunction and the use of the PyAny type correct, as in that PyCall still needs to infer the type of the passed in object before attempting any conversion?
- Is there a way to pass in the object and have PyCall just unwrap the wrapped julia object? If so what do I need to do to use it? I couldn't figure it out from the documentation

I would be happy to help improving the documentation or adding this feature if it isn't available and if someone could point me in the right direction.

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Línea de trabajo

Comienza rastreando los puntos de entrada PyCall.pyfunction y PyCall.pyfunctionret, centrándote en el comportamiento de PyAny, PyObject y el objeto de Julia envuelto descrito en el ejemplo. Determina si se admite desenvolverlo; se considera terminado si existe una invocación documentada que acepte el Vector{Float64} envuelto o una implementación acotada con pruebas que cubran esta ruta de llamada.

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julia, python
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