Julia object has no attribute Any

[zekeriyasari]

Although it is possible to access any built-in Julia function, it is not possible to access any of the Julia built-in Julia types. For example, the script

from julia import Julia
jul = Julia()
print(jul.sind)
print(jul.Any)

gives the output:

<PyCall.jlwrap sind>
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/user/zekeriya.sari/Documents/AtomProjects/PyJUlia/test.py", line 5, in <module>
    print(jul.Any)
AttributeError: 'Julia' object has no attribute 'Any'

I did not see any information about this issue in the documentation and in the test codes of pyjulia. I wonder if it is possible to access these built-in Julia types in python side. (See JuliaPy/PyCall.jl#460). Any suggestions?

[stevengj]

Yes, it looks like it currently only exports the functions in Base (https://github.com/JuliaPy/pyjulia/blob/master/julia/core.py#L386), and similarly for other modules.

Honestly, the whole current approach seems less than ideal to me… I feel like it should load symbols in the module(s) lazily, rather than adding them all as attributes when the module is loaded. This would improve load times and also be more flexible about non-function symbols (e.g. mutable globals would work, because the conversion would occur each time they are accessed).

For now, you can presumably do jul.eval("Any")?

[zekeriyasari]

jul.eval("Any") works fine. Thank you for all.