Python sidre interface features
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Since Jul 9, 2025.
enhancement
Python
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Sidre
- Dominant language
- C++
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Description
List of python Sidre interface features:
- Export/package Axom's python libraries. (setup.py? pyproject.toml? others?)
- Create bindings for the rest of the C++ Sidre interface where possible
- Make the interface more pythonic (reference doc: https://peps.python.org/pep-0008/#function-and-variable-names)
- Integrate better with numpy (add support for more numpy data types) or other python libraries
- Add blueprint support
- Enable/disable support if Conduit was/was not built with python support. Add when other Axom components have python support added (other components do not strictly require conduit+python support). EDIT: sidre requires conduit, so
axom+pythonwill requireconduit+python.
- Enable/disable support if Conduit was/was not built with python support. Add when other Axom components have python support added (other components do not strictly require conduit+python support). EDIT: sidre requires conduit, so
- Check that we're not leaking memory
- Add support for iterating the groups/views/buffers
- Test python interface in Docker images (GHA)
- Test python interface on Windows
- Add support for custom structs / opaque types (if possible and desired. )
- (optional) Interoperate with other python bindings, e.g. conduit, blueprint, hdf5, mpi (?) EDIT: conduit, mpi added.
- (optional?) Expose, test allocations on device
Formatted from PR comment: https://github.com/LLNL/axom/pull/1594#pullrequestreview-2967402583
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