Issue #29300: Rename struct.unpack() second parameter from "inputstr" to
"buffer", and use the Py_buffer type.
Fix also unit tests on struct.unpack() which passed a Unicode string instead of
a bytes string as struct.unpack() second parameter. The purpose of
test_trailing_counter() is to test invalid format strings, not to test the
buffer parameter.
* The struct module now requires contiguous buffers.
* Convert most functions and methods of the _struct module to Argument Clinic
* Use "Py_buffer" type for the "buffer" argument. Argument Clinic is
responsible to create and release the Py_buffer object.
* Use "PyStructObject *" type for self to avoid explicit conversions.
* Add an unit test on the _struct.Struct.unpack_from() method to test passing
arguments as keywords.
* Rephrase docstrings.
* Rename "fmt" argument to "format" in docstrings and the documentation.
As a side effect, functions and methods which used METH_VARARGS calling
convention like struct.pack() now use the METH_FASTCALL calling convention
which avoids the creation of temporary tuple to pass positional arguments and
so is faster. For example, struct.pack("i", 1) becomes 1.56x faster (-36%)::
$ ./python -m perf timeit \
-s 'import struct; pack=struct.pack' 'pack("i", 1)' \
--compare-to=../default-ref/python
Median +- std dev: 119 ns +- 1 ns -> 76.8 ns +- 0.4 ns: 1.56x faster (-36%)
Significant (t=295.91)
Patch co-written with Serhiy Storchaka.
I have compared output between pre- and post-patch runs of these tests
to make sure there's nothing missing and nothing broken, on both
Windows and Linux. The only differences I found were actually tests
that were previously *not* run.
* Replace "bytes" by "bytes object" in struct error messages
* Document the API change in What's new in Python 3.2
* Fix test_wave
* Remove also ugly implicit conversions in test_struct
frombytes() and tobytes(), respectively, to avoid confusion. Furthermore,
array.frombytes(), array.extend() as well as the array.array()
constructor now accept bytearray objects. Patch by Thomas Jollans.
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/branches/py3k
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r82637 | benjamin.peterson | 2010-07-07 17:45:06 -0500 (Wed, 07 Jul 2010) | 1 line
ValueError in this case is also acceptable
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r79740 | ezio.melotti | 2010-04-04 10:00:02 +0300 (Sun, 04 Apr 2010) | 1 line
Use more specific assert* methods in test_struct.
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r79674 | mark.dickinson | 2010-04-03 15:05:10 +0100 (Sat, 03 Apr 2010) | 3 lines
Issue #8300: Let struct.pack use __index__ to convert and pack non-integers.
Based on a patch by Meador Inge.
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Serhiy Storchaka
Victor Stinner
Johan Liu
Andrew Nester
Benjamin Peterson
Mark Dickinson
Zachary Ware
Antoine Pitrou
Andrew Svetlov
Martin v. Löwis
Meador Inge
Jesus Cea
Ezio Melotti
Victor Stinner
Florent Xicluna
Alexander Belopolsky