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* doc: avoid C++ types in docstrings

* A bit of rewording

* Another bit of rewording

* Third rewording

Adapt code example in advanced/classes.rst to new handling of forgetting to call the superclass __init__ (#2429)

The main change is to treat error_already_set as a separate category
of exception that arises in different circumstances and needs to be
handled differently. The asymmetry between Python and C++ exceptions
is further emphasized.

* feat: FindPython support

* refactor: rename to PYBIND11_FINDPYTHON

* docs: Caps fixes

* feat: NOPYTHON mode

* test: check simple call

* docs: add changelog/upgrade guide

* feat: Support Python3 and Python2

* refactor: Use targets in tests

* fix: support CMake 3.4+

* feat: classic search also finds virtual environments

* docs: some updates from @wjakob's review

* fix: wrong name for QUIET mode variable, reported by @skoslowski

* refactor: cleaner output messaging

* fix: support debug Python's in FindPython mode too

* fixup! refactor: cleaner output messaging

* fix: missing pybind11_FOUND and pybind11_INCLUDE_DIR restored to subdir mode

* fix: nicer reporting of Python / PyPy

* fix: out-of-order variable fix

* docs: minor last-minute cleanup

To deal with exceptions that hit destructors or other noexcept functions.

Includes fixes to support Python 2.7 and extends documentation on
error handling.

@virtuald and @YannickJadoul both contributed to this PR.

* Enable py::ellipsis on Python 2

* Enable py::ellipsis tests on Python 2 and mention `Ellipsis` in the docs

* Fix undefined memoryview format

* Add missing <algorithm> header

* Add workaround for py27 array compatibility

* Workaround py27 memoryview behavior

* Fix memoryview constructor from buffer_info

* Workaround PyMemoryView_FromMemory availability in py27

* Fix up memoryview tests

* Update memoryview test from buffer to check signedness

* Use static factory method to create memoryview

* Remove ndim arg from memoryview::frombuffer and add tests

* Allow ndim=0 memoryview and documentation fixup

* Use void* to align to frombuffer method signature

* Add const variants of frombuffer and frommemory

* Add memory view section in doc

* Fix docs

* Add test for null buffer

* Workaround py27 nullptr behavior in test

* Rename frombuffer to from_buffer

- Fixes #2103

* (docs) convert note to real note

* (docs) Add information about (deep)copy

This reverts commit 9ed8b440.

This adds support for a `py::args_kw_only()` annotation that can be
specified between `py::arg` annotations to indicate that any following
arguments are keyword-only.  This allows you to write:

    m.def("f", [](int a, int b) { /* ... */ },
          py::arg("a"), py::args_kw_only(), py::arg("b"));

and have it work like Python 3's:

    def f(a, *, b):
        # ...

with respect to how `a` and `b` arguments are accepted (that is, `a` can
be positional or by keyword; `b` can only be specified by keyword).

- Not currently supported on PyPy

__init__(self) cannot return values. According to https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2491819/how-to-return-a-value-from-init-in-python __new__(cls) should be used, which works.

* Added ability to convert from Python datetime.date and datetime.time to C++ system_clock::time_point

Commit 2b045757 ("Improve documentation related to inheritance. (#1676)") left off
a ':' from a hyperlink, which breaks the Travis CI build.

* Adds section to the reference.
* Adds section to advanced classes page describing how to use `get_overload`.

* Always capitalize Eigen

* Fix spelling

I think this particular method binding should not be done with `PYBIND11_OVERLOAD_PURE` but instead `PYBIND11_OVERLOAD`.

* doc: Add note about casting from `None` to `T*`

* doc: reword 'none-to-pointer' note message

* doc: mention opaque types in 'none-to-pointer' note message

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* Adds std::deque to the types supported by list_caster in stl.h.
* Adds a new test_deque test in test_stl.{py,cpp}.
* Updates the documentation to include std::deque as a default
  supported type.

This PR adds a new py::ellipsis() method which can be used in
conjunction with NumPy's generalized slicing support. For instance,
the following is now valid (where "a" is a NumPy array):

py::array b = a[py::make_tuple(0, py::ellipsis(), 0)];

Fixed typos (erroneous `;`) in `classes.rst`.

Found via `codespell`

* Add basic support for tag-based static polymorphism

Sometimes it is possible to look at a C++ object and know what its dynamic type is,
even if it doesn't use C++ polymorphism, because instances of the object and its
subclasses conform to some other mechanism for being self-describing; for example,
perhaps there's an enumerated "tag" or "kind" member in the base class that's always
set to an indication of the correct type. This might be done for performance reasons,
or to permit most-derived types to be trivially copyable. One of the most widely-known
examples is in LLVM: https://llvm.org/docs/HowToSetUpLLVMStyleRTTI.html

This PR permits pybind11 to be informed of such conventions via a new specializable
detail::polymorphic_type_hook<> template, which generalizes the previous logic for
determining the runtime type of an object based on C++ RTTI. Implementors provide
a way to map from a base class object to a const std::type_info* for the dynamic
type; pybind11 then uses this to ensure that casting a Base* to Python creates a
Python object that knows it's wrapping the appropriate sort of Derived.

There are a number of restrictions with this tag-based static polymorphism support
compared to pybind11's existing support for built-in C++ polymorphism:

- there is no support for this-pointer adjustment, so only single inheritance is permitted
- there is no way to make C++ code call new Python-provided subclasses
- when binding C++ classes that redefine a method in a subclass, the .def() must be
  repeated in the binding for Python to know about the update

But these are not much of an issue in practice in many cases, the impact on the
complexity of pybind11's innards is minimal and localized, and the support for
automatic downcasting improves usability a great deal.