[Python-Dev] Bad interaction of index and sequence repeat (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Tue Aug 1 17:42:46 CEST 2006

Nick Coghlan wrote:

Travis Oliphant wrote:

Probably the most interesting thing now would be for Travis to review it, and see whether it makes things easier to handle for the Numeric scalar types (given the amount of code the patch deleted from the builtin and standard library data types, hopefully the benefits to Numeric will be comparable).

I noticed most of the checks for PyInt where removed in the patch. If I remember correctly, I left these in for "optimization." Other than that, I think the patch is great. You're right - there was a fast path based on PyIntCheck in PyEvalSliceIndex that got lost, which I'll add back in. I'll also add fast paths for PyIntCheck to the functions in abstract.c, too. The other PyIntCheck's (in slotnbindex and instanceindex) were there to check that index returned the right thing. The check was still there in slotnbindex, but I'd incorrectly removed it from instanceindex. I'll add that one back in, too. Once that's done, I'll update the tracker item and reassign to Tim for a review.

Aside from the 'assign to Tim' part, this is done now (pep357-fix-v3 on the tracker item). I also tweaked the clipping version of the C API to optionally expose the overflow flag that abstract.c was using internally so the client code can find out whether or not clipping actually occurred.

The patch also updates the index unit tests to:

Neal also had a number of questions that I responded to in the tracker comments.

The most significant question related to the API signature, which Neal considered potentially confusing: PyNumber_Index(PyObject *item, int *is_index)

I added the is_index flag to the function signatures instead of providing a separate PyNumber_IndexCheck function in order to avoid doing the same type check twice in the typical mp_subscript implementation cases.

One possibility would be to invert the sense of that flag and call it "typeerror", which probably more accurately reflects what it's intended for - it's a way of telling the function "if this object does not have the correct type, tell me by setting this flag instead of by setting the Python error state".

Regards, Nick.

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