Adds support to convert iterators to arrays (#928)

AUTHORS.md

@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
 -   Jan Krivanek ([@jakrivan](https://github.com/jakrivan))
 -   Jeff Reback ([@jreback](https://github.com/jreback))
 -   Joe Frayne ([@jfrayne](https://github.com/jfrayne))
+-   Joe Lidbetter ([@jmlidbetter](https://github.com/jmlidbetter))
 -   John Burnett ([@johnburnett](https://github.com/johnburnett))
 -   John Wilkes ([@jbw3](https://github.com/jbw3))
 -   Luke Stratman ([@lstratman](https://github.com/lstratman))

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ This document follows the conventions laid out in [Keep a CHANGELOG][].
 -   Added argument types information to "No method matches given arguments" message
 -   Moved wheel import in setup.py inside of a try/except to prevent pip collection failures
 -   Removes PyLong_GetMax and PyClass_New when targetting Python3
+-   Added support for converting python iterators to C# arrays
 
 ### Fixed
 

src/runtime/converter.cs

@@ -837,17 +837,20 @@ namespace Python.Runtime
 
         /// <summary>
         /// Convert a Python value to a correctly typed managed array instance.
-        /// The Python value must support the Python sequence protocol and the
+        /// The Python value must support the Python iterator protocol or and the
         /// items in the sequence must be convertible to the target array type.
         /// </summary>
         private static bool ToArray(IntPtr value, Type obType, out object result, bool setError)
         {
             Type elementType = obType.GetElementType();
-            var size = Runtime.PySequence_Size(value);
             result = null;
 
-            if (size < 0)
-            {
+            bool IsSeqObj = Runtime.PySequence_Check(value);
+            var len = IsSeqObj ? Runtime.PySequence_Size(value) : -1;
+
+            IntPtr IterObject = Runtime.PyObject_GetIter(value);
+
+            if(IterObject==IntPtr.Zero) {
                 if (setError)
                 {
                     SetConversionError(value, obType);
@@ -855,21 +858,17 @@ namespace Python.Runtime
                 return false;
             }
 
-            Array items = Array.CreateInstance(elementType, size);
+            Array items;
 
-            // XXX - is there a better way to unwrap this if it is a real array?
-            for (var i = 0; i < size; i++)
+            var listType = typeof(List<>);
+            var constructedListType = listType.MakeGenericType(elementType);
+            IList list = IsSeqObj ? (IList) Activator.CreateInstance(constructedListType, new Object[] {(int) len}) : 
+                                        (IList) Activator.CreateInstance(constructedListType);
+            IntPtr item;
+
+            while ((item = Runtime.PyIter_Next(IterObject)) != IntPtr.Zero)
             {
                 object obj = null;
-                IntPtr item = Runtime.PySequence_GetItem(value, i);
-                if (item == IntPtr.Zero)
-                {
-                    if (setError)
-                    {
-                        SetConversionError(value, obType);
-                        return false;
-                    }
-                }
 
                 if (!Converter.ToManaged(item, elementType, out obj, true))
                 {
@@ -877,10 +876,14 @@ namespace Python.Runtime
                     return false;
                 }
 
-                items.SetValue(obj, i);
+                list.Add(obj);
                 Runtime.XDecref(item);
             }
+            Runtime.XDecref(IterObject);
 
+            items = Array.CreateInstance(elementType, list.Count);
+            list.CopyTo(items, 0);
+            
             result = items;
             return true;
         }

src/tests/test_array.py

@@ -1337,3 +1337,34 @@ def test_array_abuse():
     with pytest.raises(TypeError):
         desc = Test.PublicArrayTest.__dict__['__setitem__']
         desc(0, 0, 0)
+
+
+@pytest.mark.skipif(PY2, reason="Only applies in Python 3")
+def test_iterator_to_array():
+    from System import Array, String
+
+    d = {"a": 1, "b": 2, "c": 3}
+    keys_iterator = iter(d.keys())
+    arr = Array[String](keys_iterator)
+
+    Array.Sort(arr)
+
+    assert arr[0] == "a"
+    assert arr[1] == "b"
+    assert arr[2] == "c"
+
+
+@pytest.mark.skipif(PY2, reason="Only applies in Python 3")
+def test_dict_keys_to_array():
+    from System import Array, String
+
+    d = {"a": 1, "b": 2, "c": 3}
+    d_keys = d.keys()
+    arr = Array[String](d_keys)
+
+    Array.Sort(arr)
+
+    assert arr[0] == "a"
+    assert arr[1] == "b"
+    assert arr[2] == "c"
+