don't understand how this function works, also beefed up the docs. The
most common usage error is of this form (often spread out across gotos):
if (_PyString_Resize(&s, n) < 0) {
Py_DECREF(s);
s = NULL;
goto outtahere;
}
The error is that if _PyString_Resize runs out of memory, it automatically
decrefs the input string object s (which also deallocates it, since its
refcount must be 1 upon entry), and sets s to NULL. So if the "if"
branch ever triggers, it's an error to call Py_DECREF(s): s is already
NULL! A correct way to write the above is the simpler (and intended)
if (_PyString_Resize(&s, n) < 0)
goto outtahere;
Bugfix candidate.
Change pickling format for bools to use a backwards compatible
encoding. This means you can pickle True or False on Python 2.3
and Python 2.2 or before will read it back as 1 or 0. The code
used for pickling bools before would create pickles that could
not be read in previous Python versions.
PEP 285. Everything described in the PEP is here, and there is even
some documentation. I had to fix 12 unit tests; all but one of these
were printing Boolean outcomes that changed from 0/1 to False/True.
(The exception is test_unicode.py, which did a type(x) == type(y)
style comparison. I could've fixed that with a single line using
issubtype(x, type(y)), but instead chose to be explicit about those
places where a bool is expected.
Still to do: perhaps more documentation; change standard library
modules to return False/True from predicates.
metaclass, reported by Dan Parisien.
Objects that are instances of custom metaclasses, i.e. whose ob_type
is a subclass of PyType_Type, should be pickled the same as new-style
classes (objects whose ob_type is PyType_Type). This can't be done
through the existing dispatch switches, and the __reduce__ trick
doesn't work for these, since it finds the unbound __reduce__ for
instances of the class (inherited from PyBaseObject_Type). So check
explicitly using PyType_IsSubtype().
type.__module__ behavior.
This adds the module name and a dot in front of the type name in every
type object initializer, except for built-in types (and those that
already had this). Note that it touches lots of Mac modules -- I have
no way to test these but the changes look right. Apologies if they're
not. This also touches the weakref docs, which contains a sample type
object initializer. It also touches the mmap test output, because the
mmap type's repr is included in that output. It touches object.h to
put the correct description in a comment.
find_class(): We no longer mask all exceptions[1] by transforming them
into SystemError. The latter is definitely not the right thing to do,
so we let any exceptions that occur in the PyObject_GetAttr() call to
simply propagate up if they occur.
[1] Note that pickle only masked ImportError, KeyError, and
AttributeError, but cPickle masked all exceptions.
Raise ValueError when an object contains an arbitrarily nested
reference to itself. (The previous fix just produced invalid
pickles.)
Solution is very much like Py_ReprEnter() and Py_ReprLeave():
fast_save_enter() and fast_save_leave() that tracks the fast_container
limit and keeps a fast_memo of objects currently being pickled.
The cost of the solution is moderately expensive for deeply nested
structures, but it still seems to be faster than normal pickling,
based on tests with deeply nested lists.
Once FAST_LIMIT is exceeded, the new code is about twice as slow as
fast-mode code that doesn't check for recursion. It's still twice as
fast as the normal pickling code. In the absence of deeply nested
structures, I couldn't measure a difference.
Add a fast_container member to Picklerobject. If fast is true, then
fast_container counts the depth of nested container calls. If the
depth exceeds FAST_LIMIT (2000), the fast flag is ignored and the
normal checks occur. This approach is much like the approach for
prevent stack overflow for comparison and reprs of recursive objects
(e.g. [[...]]).
- Fast container used for save_list(), save_dict(), and
save_inst().
XXX Not clear which other save_xxx() functions should use it.
Make Picklerobject into new-style types, using PyObject_GenericGetAttr()
and PyObject_GenericSetAttr().
- Use PyMemberDef for binary and fast members
- Use PyGetSetDef for persistent_id, inst_persistent_id, memo, and
PicklingError.
XXX Not all of these seem like they need to use getset, but it's
not clear why the old getattr() and setattr() had such odd
semantics. One change is that the getvalue() attribute will
exist on all Picklers, not just list-based picklers; I think
this is a more rationale interface.
There is a long laundry list of other changes:
- Remove unused #defines for PyList_SET_ITEM() etc.
- Make some of the indentation consistent
- Replace uses of cPickle_PyMapping_HasKey() where the first
argument is self->memo with calls to PyDict_GetItem(), because
self->memo must be a dictionary.
- Don't bother to check if cPickle_PyMapping_HasKey() returns < 0,
because it can only return 0 or 1.
- Replace uses of PyObject_CallObject() with PyObject_Call(), when
we can guarantee that the argument tuple is really a tuple.
Performance impacts of these changes:
- 5% speedup for normal pickling
- No change to fast-mode pickling.
XXX Really need tests for all the features in cPickle that aren't in
pickle.
This patch attempts to do to cPickle what Guido did
for pickle.py v 1.50. That is: save_global tries
importing the module, and fetching the name from the
module. If that fails, or the returned object is not
the same one we started with, it raises a
PicklingError. (All this so pickling a lambda will
fail at save time, rather than load time).
- Do not compile unicodeobject, unicodectype, and unicodedata if Unicode is disabled
- check for Py_USING_UNICODE in all places that use Unicode functions
- disables unicode literals, and the builtin functions
- add the types.StringTypes list
- remove Unicode literals from most tests.
of 2-space and 4-space indents. Whatever, when I saw the checkin diff it
was clear that what my editor thinks a tab means didn't match this module's
belief. Removed all the tabs from the lines I added and changed, left
everything else alone.
pickled into the signed(!) 4-byte BININT format, so were getting unpickled
again as negative ints. Repaired that.
Added some minimal docs at the top about what I've learned about the pickle
format codes (little of which was obvious from staring at the code,
although that's partly because all the size-related bugs greatly obscured
the true intent of the code).
Happy side effect: because save_int() needed to grow a *proper* range
check in order to fix this bug, it can now use the more-efficient BININT1,
BININT2 and BININT formats when the long's value is small enough to fit
in a signed 4-byte int (before this, on a sizeof(long)==8 box it always
used the general INT format for negative ints).
test_cpickle works again on sizeof(long)==8 machines. test_pickle is
still busted big-time.
binary pickle, and the latter contains a pickle of a negative Python
int i written on a sizeof(long)==4 box (and whether by cPickle or
pickle.py), it's read incorrectly as i + 2**32. The patch repairs that,
and allows test_cpickle.py (to which I added a relevant test case earlier
today) to work again on sizeof(long)==8 boxes.
There's another (at least one) sizeof(long)==8 binary pickle bug, but in
pickle.py instead. That bug is still there, and test_pickle.py doesn't
catch it yet (try pickling and unpickling, e.g., 1 << 46).
bugs #126161 and 123634).
The solution doesn't use the unicode-escape encoding; that has other
problems (it seems not 100% reversible). Rather, it transforms the
input Unicode object slightly before encoding it using
raw-unicode-escape, so that the decoding will reconstruct the original
string: backslash and newline characters are translated into their
\uXXXX counterparts.
This is backwards incompatible for strings containing backslashes, but
for some of those strings, the pickling was already broken.
Note that SF bug #123634 complains specifically that cPickle fails to
unpickle the pickle for u'' (the empty Unicode string) correctly.
This was an off-by-one error in load_unicode().
XXX Ugliness: in order to do the modified raw-unicode-escape, I've
cut-and-pasted a copy of PyUnicode_EncodeRawUnicodeEscape() into this
file that also encodes '\\' and '\n'. It might be nice to migrate
this into the Unicode implementation and give this encoding a new name
('half-raw-unicode-escape'? 'pickle-unicode-escape'?); that would help
pickle.py too. But right now I can't be bothered with the necessary
infrastructural changes.
and fwrite return size_t, so it is safer to cast up to the largest type for the
comparison. I believe the cast is required at all to remove compiler warnings.
This patch fixes cPickle.c for 64-bit platforms.
- The false assumption sizeof(long) == size(void*) exists where
PyInt_FromLong is used to represent a pointer. The safe Python call
for this is PyLong_FromVoidPtr. (On platforms where the above
assumption *is* true a PyInt is returned as before so there is no
effective change.)
- use size_t instead of int for some variables
into. Jim writes:
The core dump was due to a C decrement operation
in a macro invocation in load_pop. (BAD)
I fixed this by moving the decrement outside
the macro call.
I added a comment to load_pop and load_mark
to document the fact that cPickle separates the
unpickling stack into two separate stacks, one for
objects and one for marks.
I also moved some increments out of some macro
calls (PyTuple_SET_ITEM and PyList_SET_ITEM).
This wasn't necessary, but made me feel better. :)
I tested these changes in *my* cPickle, which
doesn't have the new Unicode stuff.
For more comments, read the patches@python.org archives.
For documentation read the comments in mymalloc.h and objimpl.h.
(This is not exactly what Vladimir posted to the patches list; I've
made a few changes, and Vladimir sent me a fix in private email for a
problem that only occurs in debug mode. I'm also holding back on his
change to main.c, which seems unnecessary to me.)
"""
Problem description:
Run the following script:
import test.test_cpickle
for x in xrange(1000000):
reload(test.test_cpickle)
Watch Python's memory use go up up and away!
In the course of debugging this I also saw that cPickle is
inconsistent with pickle - if you attempt a pickle.load or pickle.dump
on a closed file, you get a ValueError, whereas the corresponding
cPickle operations give an IOError. Since cPickle is advertised as
being compatible with pickle, I changed these exceptions to match.
"""
"""
It fixes a memory corruption error resulting from BadPickleGet
exceptions in load_get, load_binget and load_long_binget. This was
initially reported on c.l.py as a problem with Cookie.py; see the thread
titled "python core dump (SIGBUS) on Solaris" for more details.
If PyDict_GetItem(self->memo, py_key) call failed, then py_key was being
Py_DECREF'd out of existence before call was made to
PyErr_SetObject(BadPickleGet, py_key).
The bug can be duplicated as follows:
import cPickle
cPickle.loads('garyp')
This raises a BadPickleGet exception whose value is a freed object. A
core dump will soon follow.
"""
Jim Fulton approves of the patch.
- Don't call Py_FatalError() when initialization fails.
- Fix bogus use of return value from PyRun_String().
- Fix misc. compiler errors on some platforms.
I've updated cPickle.c to use class exceptions:
Changed pickle error types to classes:
PickleError
PicklingError
UnpickleableError
UnpicklingError
And change the handling of unpickleable objects so that an UnpickleableError
is raised with the unpickleable object as the argument. UnpickleableError
has a reasonable string representation and provides access to the problem
object, which is useful during debugging.
[I'm still waiting for patches to do the same to pickle.py.]
Fred Drake
Tim Peters
Neal Norwitz
Guido van Rossum
Martin v. Löwis
Neil Schemenauer
Barry Warsaw
Jeremy Hylton
Michael W. Hudson
Trent Mick
Peter Schneider-Kamp
Thomas Wouters