Merge branch 'ccrouzet/gh-506-tuples' into 'main'

Improve Support for Tuples in Kernels and Return Constant Values From `len()` Where Possible (GH-506)

See merge request omniverse/warp!1262

Author: christophercrouzet

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -49,6 +49,10 @@
 - Warn when an incompatible data type conversion is detected when constructing an array using the
   `__cuda_array_interface__` ([GH-624](https://github.com/NVIDIA/warp/issues/624),
   [GH-670](https://github.com/NVIDIA/warp/issues/670)).
+- Improve support for tuples in kernels
+  ([GH-506](https://github.com/NVIDIA/warp/issues/506)).
+- Return a constant value from `len()` where possible.
+- Rename the internal function `wp.types.type_length()` to `type_size()`.
 
 ### Fixed
 

docs/modules/functions.rst

@@ -2202,6 +2202,13 @@ Utility
     Return the number of rows in a tile.
 
 
+.. py:function:: len(a: Tuple) -> int
+    :noindex:
+    :nocontentsentry:
+
+    Return the number of elements in a tuple.
+
+
 
 
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