Special thanks to INADA Naoki for pushing the patch through
the last mile, Serhiy Storchaka for reviewing the code, and to
Victor Stinner for suggesting the idea (originally implemented
in the PyPy project).
Issue #27213: Rework CALL_FUNCTION* opcodes to produce shorter and more
efficient bytecode:
* CALL_FUNCTION now only accepts position arguments
* CALL_FUNCTION_KW accepts position arguments and keyword arguments, but keys
of keyword arguments are packed into a constant tuple.
* CALL_FUNCTION_EX is the most generic, it expects a tuple and a dict for
positional and keyword arguments.
CALL_FUNCTION_VAR and CALL_FUNCTION_VAR_KW opcodes have been removed.
2 tests of test_traceback are currently broken: skip test, the issue #28050 was
created to track the issue.
Patch by Demur Rumed, design by Serhiy Storchaka, reviewed by Serhiy Storchaka
and Victor Stinner.
Summary of changes:
1. Coroutines now have a distinct, separate from generators
type at the C level: PyGen_Type, and a new typedef PyCoroObject.
PyCoroObject shares the initial segment of struct layout with
PyGenObject, making it possible to reuse existing generators
machinery. The new type is exposed as 'types.CoroutineType'.
As a consequence of having a new type, CO_GENERATOR flag is
no longer applied to coroutines.
2. Having a separate type for coroutines made it possible to add
an __await__ method to the type. Although it is not used by the
interpreter (see details on that below), it makes coroutines
naturally (without using __instancecheck__) conform to
collections.abc.Coroutine and collections.abc.Awaitable ABCs.
[The __instancecheck__ is still used for generator-based
coroutines, as we don't want to add __await__ for generators.]
3. Add new opcode: GET_YIELD_FROM_ITER. The opcode is needed to
allow passing native coroutines to the YIELD_FROM opcode.
Before this change, 'yield from o' expression was compiled to:
(o)
GET_ITER
LOAD_CONST
YIELD_FROM
Now, we use GET_YIELD_FROM_ITER instead of GET_ITER.
The reason for adding a new opcode is that GET_ITER is used
in some contexts (such as 'for .. in' loops) where passing
a coroutine object is invalid.
4. Add two new introspection functions to the inspec module:
getcoroutinestate(c) and getcoroutinelocals(c).
5. inspect.iscoroutine(o) is updated to test if 'o' is a native
coroutine object. Before this commit it used abc.Coroutine,
and it was requested to update inspect.isgenerator(o) to use
abc.Generator; it was decided, however, that inspect functions
should really be tailored for checking for native types.
6. sys.set_coroutine_wrapper(w) API is updated to work with only
native coroutines. Since types.coroutine decorator supports
any type of callables now, it would be confusing that it does
not work for all types of coroutines.
7. Exceptions logic in generators C implementation was updated
to raise clearer messages for coroutines:
Before: TypeError("generator raised StopIteration")
After: TypeError("coroutine raised StopIteration")
namespace if it occurs as a free variable in a nested block. This limitation
of the compiler has been lifted, and a new opcode introduced (DELETE_DEREF).
This sample was valid in 2.6, but fails to compile in 3.x without this change::
>>> def f():
... def print_error():
... print(e)
... try:
... something
... except Exception as e:
... print_error()
... # implicit "del e" here
This sample has always been invalid in Python, and now works::
>>> def outer(x):
... def inner():
... return x
... inner()
... del x
There is no need to bump the PYC magic number: the new opcode is used
for code that did not compile before.
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk
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r72912 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-05-25 08:13:44 -0500 (Mon, 25 May 2009) | 5 lines
add a SETUP_WITH opcode
It speeds up the with statement and correctly looks up the special
methods involved.
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r72920 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-05-25 15:12:57 -0500 (Mon, 25 May 2009) | 1 line
take into account the fact that SETUP_WITH pushes a finally block
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r72940 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-05-26 07:49:59 -0500 (Tue, 26 May 2009) | 1 line
teach the peepholer about SETUP_WITH
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This patch by Antoine Pitrou optimizes the bytecode for conditional branches by
merging the following "POP_TOP" instruction into the conditional jump. For
example, the list comprehension "[x for x in l if not x]" produced the
following bytecode:
1 0 BUILD_LIST 0
3 LOAD_FAST 0 (.0)
>> 6 FOR_ITER 23 (to 32)
9 STORE_FAST 1 (x)
12 LOAD_FAST 1 (x)
15 JUMP_IF_TRUE 10 (to 28)
18 POP_TOP
19 LOAD_FAST 1 (x)
22 LIST_APPEND 2
25 JUMP_ABSOLUTE 6
>> 28 POP_TOP
29 JUMP_ABSOLUTE 6
>> 32 RETURN_VALUE
but after the patch it produces the following bytecode:
1 0 BUILD_LIST 0
3 LOAD_FAST 0 (.0)
>> 6 FOR_ITER 18 (to 27)
9 STORE_FAST 1 (x)
12 LOAD_FAST 1 (x)
15 POP_JUMP_IF_TRUE 6
18 LOAD_FAST 1 (x)
21 LIST_APPEND 2
24 JUMP_ABSOLUTE 6
>> 27 RETURN_VALUE
Notice that not only the code is shorter, but the conditional jump
(POP_JUMP_IF_TRUE) jumps right to the start of the loop instead of going through
the JUMP_ABSOLUTE at the end. "continue" statements are helped
similarly.
Furthermore, the old jump opcodes (JUMP_IF_FALSE, JUMP_IF_TRUE) have been
replaced by two new opcodes:
- JUMP_IF_TRUE_OR_POP, which jumps if true and pops otherwise
- JUMP_IF_FALSE_OR_POP, which jumps if false and pops otherwise
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk
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r59544 | raymond.hettinger | 2007-12-18 01:13:45 +0100 (Tue, 18 Dec 2007) | 1 line
Add more namedtuple() test cases. Neaten the code and comments.
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r59545 | christian.heimes | 2007-12-18 04:38:03 +0100 (Tue, 18 Dec 2007) | 3 lines
Fixed for #1601: IDLE not working correctly on Windows (Py30a2/IDLE30a1)
Amaury's ideas works great. Should we build the Python core with WINVER=0x0500 and _WIN32_WINNT=0x0500, too?
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r59546 | christian.heimes | 2007-12-18 10:00:13 +0100 (Tue, 18 Dec 2007) | 1 line
Make it a bit easier to test Tcl/Tk and idle from a build dir.
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r59547 | christian.heimes | 2007-12-18 10:12:10 +0100 (Tue, 18 Dec 2007) | 1 line
Removed several unused files from the PCbuild9 directory. They are relics from the past.
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r59548 | raymond.hettinger | 2007-12-18 19:26:18 +0100 (Tue, 18 Dec 2007) | 29 lines
Speed-up dictionary constructor by about 10%.
New opcode, STORE_MAP saves the compiler from awkward stack manipulations
and specializes for dicts using PyDict_SetItem instead of PyObject_SetItem.
Old disassembly:
0 BUILD_MAP 0
3 DUP_TOP
4 LOAD_CONST 1 (1)
7 ROT_TWO
8 LOAD_CONST 2 ('x')
11 STORE_SUBSCR
12 DUP_TOP
13 LOAD_CONST 3 (2)
16 ROT_TWO
17 LOAD_CONST 4 ('y')
20 STORE_SUBSCR
New disassembly:
0 BUILD_MAP 0
3 LOAD_CONST 1 (1)
6 LOAD_CONST 2 ('x')
9 STORE_MAP
10 LOAD_CONST 3 (2)
13 LOAD_CONST 4 ('y')
16 STORE_MAP
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r59549 | thomas.heller | 2007-12-18 20:00:34 +0100 (Tue, 18 Dec 2007) | 2 lines
Issue #1642: Fix segfault in ctypes when trying to delete attributes.
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r59551 | guido.van.rossum | 2007-12-18 21:10:42 +0100 (Tue, 18 Dec 2007) | 2 lines
Issue #1645 by Alberto Bertogli. Fix a comment.
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r59553 | raymond.hettinger | 2007-12-18 22:24:09 +0100 (Tue, 18 Dec 2007) | 12 lines
Give meaning to the oparg for BUILD_MAP: estimated size of the dictionary.
Allows dictionaries to be pre-sized (upto 255 elements) saving time lost
to re-sizes with their attendant mallocs and re-insertions.
Has zero effect on small dictionaries (5 elements or fewer), a slight
benefit for dicts upto 22 elements (because they had to resize once
anyway), and more benefit for dicts upto 255 elements (saving multiple
resizes during the build-up and reducing the number of collisions on
the first insertions). Beyond 255 elements, there is no addional benefit.
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r59554 | christian.heimes | 2007-12-18 22:56:09 +0100 (Tue, 18 Dec 2007) | 1 line
Fixed#1649: IDLE error: dictionary changed size during iteration
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r59557 | raymond.hettinger | 2007-12-18 23:21:27 +0100 (Tue, 18 Dec 2007) | 1 line
Simplify and speedup _asdict() for named tuples.
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r59558 | christian.heimes | 2007-12-19 00:22:54 +0100 (Wed, 19 Dec 2007) | 3 lines
Applied patch #1635: Float patch for inf and nan on Windows (and other platforms).
The patch unifies float("inf") and repr(float("inf")) on all platforms.
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r59559 | raymond.hettinger | 2007-12-19 00:51:15 +0100 (Wed, 19 Dec 2007) | 1 line
Users demand iterable input for named tuples. The author capitulates.
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r59560 | raymond.hettinger | 2007-12-19 01:21:06 +0100 (Wed, 19 Dec 2007) | 1 line
Beef-up tests for dict literals
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r59561 | raymond.hettinger | 2007-12-19 01:27:21 +0100 (Wed, 19 Dec 2007) | 1 line
Zap a duplicate line
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No detailed change log; just check out the change log for the py3k-pep3137
branch. The most obvious changes:
- str8 renamed to bytes (PyString at the C level);
- bytes renamed to buffer (PyBytes at the C level);
- PyString and PyUnicode are no longer compatible.
I.e. we now have an immutable bytes type and a mutable bytes type.
The behavior of PyString was modified quite a bit, to make it more
bytes-like. Some changes are still on the to-do list.
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/branches/p3yk
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r56322 | kurt.kaiser | 2007-07-12 11:35:03 -0700 (Thu, 12 Jul 2007) | 2 lines
Replace obscure code which was failing in py3k.
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r56323 | kurt.kaiser | 2007-07-12 11:44:12 -0700 (Thu, 12 Jul 2007) | 3 lines
1. Remove new division option
2. Update IDLE version to 3.0x
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r56327 | kurt.kaiser | 2007-07-12 12:20:20 -0700 (Thu, 12 Jul 2007) | 5 lines
Fix another instance of this defect in Tkinter, and one in IDLE.
Patch 1724999 by Ali Gholami Rudi -- avoid complaints about dict size
change during iter in destroy call.
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r56339 | georg.brandl | 2007-07-13 03:07:25 -0700 (Fri, 13 Jul 2007) | 2 lines
Fix#1753310: regrtest -x doesn't work anymore
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r56361 | kurt.kaiser | 2007-07-13 18:25:24 -0700 (Fri, 13 Jul 2007) | 2 lines
convert a map() iterator to a list to get this working.
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r56362 | kurt.kaiser | 2007-07-13 18:53:45 -0700 (Fri, 13 Jul 2007) | 2 lines
Was modifying dict during iteration.
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r56376 | collin.winter | 2007-07-14 11:56:19 -0700 (Sat, 14 Jul 2007) | 1 line
Add an example of class decorators to test_grammar.
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r56377 | collin.winter | 2007-07-14 12:00:17 -0700 (Sat, 14 Jul 2007) | 1 line
Add a basic example of dictcomps to test_grammar.
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r56413 | neal.norwitz | 2007-07-17 00:21:18 -0700 (Tue, 17 Jul 2007) | 149 lines
Merged revisions 56202-56412 via svnmerge from
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk
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r56204 | ronald.oussoren | 2007-07-08 23:02:21 -0700 (Sun, 08 Jul 2007) | 2 lines
Patch 1693258: Fix for duplicate "preferences" menu-OS X
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r56207 | ronald.oussoren | 2007-07-09 01:41:15 -0700 (Mon, 09 Jul 2007) | 4 lines
Patch 1673122: be explicit about which libtool to use, to avoid name clashes
when a users install GNU libtool early in his PATH
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r56280 | georg.brandl | 2007-07-11 12:41:49 -0700 (Wed, 11 Jul 2007) | 2 lines
Fix#1752132: wrong comment in opcode description.
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r56293 | georg.brandl | 2007-07-12 01:05:45 -0700 (Thu, 12 Jul 2007) | 3 lines
Patch #1752270, #1750931: complain if urllib2 add_handler called
without handler.
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r56296 | georg.brandl | 2007-07-12 01:11:29 -0700 (Thu, 12 Jul 2007) | 2 lines
Patch #1739696: use code.co_code only if really necessary
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r56298 | georg.brandl | 2007-07-12 01:38:00 -0700 (Thu, 12 Jul 2007) | 3 lines
Patch #1673759: add a missing overflow check when formatting floats
with %G.
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r56302 | georg.brandl | 2007-07-12 02:06:41 -0700 (Thu, 12 Jul 2007) | 2 lines
Patch #1731659: improve time.strptime docs.
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r56304 | georg.brandl | 2007-07-12 02:24:04 -0700 (Thu, 12 Jul 2007) | 2 lines
Patch #1731169: clean up expected skips list.
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r56306 | georg.brandl | 2007-07-12 02:37:49 -0700 (Thu, 12 Jul 2007) | 3 lines
Bug #1637365: add subsection about "__name__ == __main__" to the
Python tutorial.
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r56308 | georg.brandl | 2007-07-12 02:59:22 -0700 (Thu, 12 Jul 2007) | 5 lines
Patch #1675424: Added tests for uncovered code in the zipfile module.
The KeyError raised by Zipfile.getinfo for nonexistent names now has
a descriptive message.
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r56340 | facundo.batista | 2007-07-13 03:43:44 -0700 (Fri, 13 Jul 2007) | 6 lines
Added tests for basic behavior of DateTime, Binary, and Fault classes
and the escape function. Check that marshalling recursive sequences &
dicts raises TypeError. Check that marshalling out-of-range ints
raises OverflowError [Alan McIntyre - GSoC]
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r56345 | raymond.hettinger | 2007-07-13 05:09:41 -0700 (Fri, 13 Jul 2007) | 1 line
Correct the docs for takewhile(). Improve the recipe for nth(). Should be backported
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r56348 | thomas.heller | 2007-07-13 06:59:39 -0700 (Fri, 13 Jul 2007) | 4 lines
Repair COMError. Since exceptions are new style classes now, setting
the methods and docstring after the type creation does not work, they
must be in the dictionary before creating the type.
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r56349 | thomas.heller | 2007-07-13 07:18:06 -0700 (Fri, 13 Jul 2007) | 1 line
Add tests for _ctypes.COMError.
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r56350 | thomas.heller | 2007-07-13 09:50:43 -0700 (Fri, 13 Jul 2007) | 4 lines
Do not try to load the GLUT library in the ctypes tests. This test
adds little value, but has a large problem on OS X, as explained in
SF# 1581906.
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r56352 | thomas.heller | 2007-07-13 10:12:23 -0700 (Fri, 13 Jul 2007) | 3 lines
Fix for SF# 1701409: segfault in c_char_p of ctypes. The repr output
of c_char_p and c_wchar_p has changed as a sideeffect.
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r56355 | thomas.heller | 2007-07-13 10:46:54 -0700 (Fri, 13 Jul 2007) | 3 lines
Fix for SF# 1649098: avoid zero-sized array declaration in structure.
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r56357 | thomas.heller | 2007-07-13 12:51:55 -0700 (Fri, 13 Jul 2007) | 3 lines
PyType_stgdict() returns a borrowed reference which must not be
Py_DECREF'd.
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r56360 | barry.warsaw | 2007-07-13 15:12:58 -0700 (Fri, 13 Jul 2007) | 10 lines
In response to this SF bug:
[ 1752723 ] email.message_from_string: initial line gets discarded
I added a test to assert that when the first line of text passed to
message_from_string() contains a leading space, the message ends up with the
appropriate FirstHeaderLineIsContinuationDefect on its defects list.
The bug is invalid.
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r56364 | georg.brandl | 2007-07-14 10:12:23 -0700 (Sat, 14 Jul 2007) | 2 lines
Bug #1753406: missing \versionadded for subprocess.check_call.
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r56366 | georg.brandl | 2007-07-14 10:32:41 -0700 (Sat, 14 Jul 2007) | 2 lines
Clarify webbrowser.open description.
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r56380 | andrew.kuchling | 2007-07-14 13:58:21 -0700 (Sat, 14 Jul 2007) | 1 line
Typo fix
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r56382 | andrew.kuchling | 2007-07-14 14:56:19 -0700 (Sat, 14 Jul 2007) | 7 lines
Avoid exception if there's a stray directory inside a Maildir folder.
The Maildir specification doesn't seem to say anything about this
situation, and it can happen if you're keeping a Maildir mailbox in
Subversion (.svn directories) or some similar system. The patch just
ignores directories in the cur/, new/, tmp/ folders.
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r56392 | facundo.batista | 2007-07-14 15:41:45 -0700 (Sat, 14 Jul 2007) | 6 lines
First version. Includes tests for helper functions: read, write,
_exception, readwrite, closeall, compact_traceback; and for classes
dispatcher, dispatcher_with_send, and file_wrapper.
[Alan McIntyre - GSoC]
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r56399 | facundo.batista | 2007-07-15 13:30:39 -0700 (Sun, 15 Jul 2007) | 5 lines
Changed the used port and commented out some tests that uses
a non documented function that appers to uses resources
not present in Windows.
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r56412 | facundo.batista | 2007-07-16 19:19:39 -0700 (Mon, 16 Jul 2007) | 6 lines
Prevent asyncore.dispatcher tests from hanging by adding loop counters
to server & client, and by adding asyncore.close_all calls in
tearDown. Also choose correct expected logging results based on the
value of __debug__ [Alan McIntyre - GSoC]
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r56442 | guido.van.rossum | 2007-07-18 10:26:38 -0700 (Wed, 18 Jul 2007) | 14 lines
Merged revisions 56413-56441 via svnmerge from
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk
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r56439 | georg.brandl | 2007-07-17 23:37:55 -0700 (Tue, 17 Jul 2007) | 2 lines
Use "Unix" as platform name, not "UNIX".
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r56441 | guido.van.rossum | 2007-07-18 10:19:14 -0700 (Wed, 18 Jul 2007) | 3 lines
SF patch# 1755885 by Kurt Kaiser: show location of Unicode escape errors.
(Slightly tweaked for style and refcounts.)
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The compiler package hasn't been updated yet; test_compiler.py fails.
Otherwise all tests seem to be passing now. There are no occurrences
of __metaclass__ left in the standard library.
Docs have not been updated.
* Fix some docstrings and one Print -> print.
* Fix test_{class,code,descrtut,dis,extcall,parser,popen,pkg,subprocess,syntax,traceback}.
These were the ones that generated code with a print statement.
In most remaining failing tests there's an issue with the soft space.
This was started by Mike Bland and completed by Guido
(with help from Neal).
This still needs a __future__ statement added;
Thomas is working on Michael's patch for that aspect.
There's a small amount of code cleanup and refactoring
in ast.c, compile.c and ceval.c (I fixed the lltrace
behavior when EXT_POP is used -- however I had to make
lltrace a static global).
* Can now test for basic blocks.
* Optimize inverted comparisions.
* Optimize unary_not followed by a conditional jump.
* Added a new opcode, NOP, to keep code size constant.
* Applied NOP to previous transformations where appropriate.
Note, the NOP would not be necessary if other functions were
added to re-target jump addresses and update the co_lnotab mapping.
That would yield slightly faster and cleaner bytecode at the
expense of optimizer simplicity and of keeping it decoupled
from the line-numbering structure.
Use a slightly different strategy to determine when not to call the line
trace function. This removes the need for the RETURN_NONE opcode, so
that's gone again. Update docs and comments to match.
Thanks to Neal and Armin!
Also add a test suite. This should have come with the original patch...
[ 587993 ] SET_LINENO killer
Remove SET_LINENO. Tracing is now supported by inspecting co_lnotab.
Many sundry changes to document and adapt to this change.
This introduces:
- A new operator // that means floor division (the kind of division
where 1/2 is 0).
- The "future division" statement ("from __future__ import division)
which changes the meaning of the / operator to implement "true
division" (where 1/2 is 0.5).
- New overloadable operators __truediv__ and __floordiv__.
- New slots in the PyNumberMethods struct for true and floor division,
new abstract APIs for them, new opcodes, and so on.
I emphasize that without the future division statement, the semantics
of / will remain unchanged until Python 3.0.
Not yet implemented are warnings (default off) when / is used with int
or long arguments.
This has been on display since 7/31 as SF patch #443474.
Flames to /dev/null.
new slot tp_iter in type object, plus new flag Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_ITER
new C API PyObject_GetIter(), calls tp_iter
new builtin iter(), with two forms: iter(obj), and iter(function, sentinel)
new internal object types iterobject and calliterobject
new exception StopIteration
new opcodes for "for" loops, GET_ITER and FOR_ITER (also supported by dis.py)
new magic number for .pyc files
new special method for instances: __iter__() returns an iterator
iteration over dictionaries: "for x in dict" iterates over the keys
iteration over files: "for x in file" iterates over lines
TODO:
documentation
test suite
decide whether to use a different way to spell iter(function, sentinal)
decide whether "for key in dict" is a good idea
use iterators in map/filter/reduce, min/max, and elsewhere (in/not in?)
speed tuning (make next() a slot tp_next???)
The majority of the changes are in the compiler. The mainloop changes
primarily to implement the new opcodes and to pass a function's
closure to eval_code2(). Frames and functions got new slots to hold
the closure.
Include/compile.h
Add co_freevars and co_cellvars slots to code objects.
Update PyCode_New() to take freevars and cellvars as arguments
Include/funcobject.h
Add func_closure slot to function objects.
Add GetClosure()/SetClosure() functions (and corresponding
macros) for getting at the closure.
Include/frameobject.h
PyFrame_New() now takes a closure.
Include/opcode.h
Add four new opcodes: MAKE_CLOSURE, LOAD_CLOSURE, LOAD_DEREF,
STORE_DEREF.
Remove comment about old requirement for opcodes to fit in 7
bits.
compile.c
Implement changes to code objects for co_freevars and co_cellvars.
Modify symbol table to use st_cur_name (string object for the name
of the current scope) and st_cur_children (list of nested blocks).
Also define st_nested, which might more properly be called
st_cur_nested. Add several DEF_XXX flags to track def-use
information for free variables.
New or modified functions of note:
com_make_closure(struct compiling *, PyCodeObject *)
Emit LOAD_CLOSURE opcodes as needed to pass cells for free
variables into nested scope.
com_addop_varname(struct compiling *, int, char *)
Emits opcodes for LOAD_DEREF and STORE_DEREF.
get_ref_type(struct compiling *, char *name)
Return NAME_CLOSURE if ref type is FREE or CELL
symtable_load_symbols(struct compiling *)
Decides what variables are cell or free based on def-use info.
Can now raise SyntaxError if nested scopes are mixed with
exec or from blah import *.
make_scope_info(PyObject *, PyObject *, int, int)
Helper functions for symtable scope stack.
symtable_update_free_vars(struct symtable *)
After a code block has been analyzed, it must check each of
its children for free variables that are not defined in the
block. If a variable is free in a child and not defined in
the parent, then it is defined by block the enclosing the
current one or it is a global. This does the right logic.
symtable_add_use() is now a macro for symtable_add_def()
symtable_assign(struct symtable *, node *)
Use goto instead of for (;;)
Fixed bug in symtable where name of keyword argument in function
call was treated as assignment in the scope of the call site. Ex:
def f():
g(a=2) # a was considered a local of f
ceval.c
eval_code2() now take one more argument, a closure.
Implement LOAD_CLOSURE, LOAD_DEREF, STORE_DEREF, MAKE_CLOSURE>
Also: When name error occurs for global variable, report that the
name was global in the error mesage.
Objects/frameobject.c
Initialize f_closure to be a tuple containing space for cellvars
and freevars. f_closure is NULL if neither are present.
Objects/funcobject.c
Add support for func_closure.
Python/import.c
Change the magic number.
Python/marshal.c
Track changes to code objects.
Add the EXTENDED_ARG opcode to the virtual machine, allowing 32-bit
arguments to opcodes instead of being forced to stick to the 16-bit
limit. This is especially useful for machine-generated code, which
can be too long for the SET_LINENO parameter to fit into 16 bits.
This closes the implementation portion of SourceForge patch #100893.
name as n'. By doing some twists and turns, "as" is not a reserved word.
There is a slight change in semantics for 'from module import name' (it will
now honour the 'global' keyword) but only in cases that are explicitly
undocumented.
did the same anyway.
I'm not sure what to do with Tools/compiler/compiler/* -- that isn't part of
distutils, is it ? Should it try to be compatible with old bytecode version ?
executive summary:
Instead of typing 'apply(f, args, kwargs)' you can type 'f(*arg, **kwargs)'.
Some file-by-file details follow.
Grammar/Grammar:
simplify varargslist, replacing '*' '*' with '**'
add * & ** options to arglist
Include/opcode.h & Lib/dis.py:
define three new opcodes
CALL_FUNCTION_VAR
CALL_FUNCTION_KW
CALL_FUNCTION_VAR_KW
Python/ceval.c:
extend TypeError "keyword parameter redefined" message to include
the name of the offending keyword
reindent CALL_FUNCTION using four spaces
add handling of sequences and dictionaries using extend calls
fix function import_from to use PyErr_Format
object.h: made sizes and refcnts signed ints.
stringobject.h: make getstrsize() signed int.
methodobject.h: add METH_VARARGS and METH_FREENAME flag bit definitions.
* Grammar: add exec statement; allow testlist in expr statement.
* ceval.c, compile.c, opcode.h: support exec statement;
avoid optimizing locals when it is used
* fileobject.{c,h}: add getfilename() internal function.
* Makefile: change location of FORMS library.
* posixmodule.c: turn #if 0 into #ifdef MSDOS (stuff in unistd.h or not)
* Almost all .h files: added CPP magic to avoid duplicate inclusions and
to support inclusion from C++.
(1) dictionaries/mappings now have attributes values() and items() as
well as keys(); at the C level, use the new function mappinggetnext()
to iterate over a dictionary.
(2) "class C(): ..." is now illegal; you must write "class C: ...".
(3) Class objects now know their own name (finally!); and minor
improvements to the way how classes, functions and methods are
represented as strings.
(4) Added an "access" statement and semantics. (This is still
experimental -- as long as you don't use the keyword 'access' nothing
should be changed.)
lookup (opcode.h, ceval.[ch], compile.c, frameobject.[ch],
pythonrun.c, import.c). The .pyc MAGIC number is changed again.
Added get_menu_text to flmodule.
* Stubs for faster implementation of local variables (not yet finished)
* Added function name to code object. Print it for code and function
objects. THIS MAKES THE .PYC FILE FORMAT INCOMPATIBLE (the version
number has changed accordingly)
* Print address of self for built-in methods
* New internal functions getattro and setattro (getattr/setattr with
string object arg)
* Replaced "dictobject" with more powerful "mappingobject"
* New per-type functio tp_hash to implement arbitrary object hashing,
and hashobject() to interface to it
* Added built-in functions hash(v) and hasattr(v, 'name')
* classobject: made some functions static that accidentally weren't;
added __hash__ special instance method to implement hash()
* Added proper comparison for built-in methods and functions
Mark Shannon
Yury Selivanov
Serhiy Storchaka
Victor Stinner
Eric V. Smith
Yury Selivanov
Benjamin Peterson
Kushal Das
Nick Coghlan
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc
Antoine Pitrou
Jeffrey Yasskin
Christian Heimes
Guido van Rossum
Thomas Wouters
Georg Brandl
Brett Cannon
Neal Norwitz
Raymond Hettinger
Michael W. Hudson
Martin v. Löwis
Tim Peters
Jeremy Hylton
Fred Drake
Barry Warsaw