[Python-Dev] PySequence_Fast_GET_ITEM in string join (original) (raw)

Andrew Dalke dalke at dalkescientific.com
Tue May 23 16:41:18 CEST 2006

The Sourceforge tracker is kaputt so I'm sending it here, in part because the effbot says it's interesting.

I can derive from list and override getitem

class Spam(list): ... def getitem(self, i): ... print i ... return 2 ... Spam()[1] 1 2 Spam()[9] 9 2

Now consider the following

class Spam(list): ... def getitem(self, i): ... print "Asking for", i ... if i == 0: return "zero" ... if i == 1: return "one" ... raise IndexError, i ... Spam()[1] Asking for 1 'one'

Spiffy! For my next trick....

"".join(Spam()) ''

The relevant code in stringobject uses PySequence_Fast_GET_ITEM(seq, i), which likely doesn't know about my derived getitem.

     p = PyString_AS_STRING(res);
     for (i = 0; i < seqlen; ++i) {
             size_t n;
             item = PySequence_Fast_GET_ITEM(seq, i);
             n = PyString_GET_SIZE(item);
             memcpy(p, PyString_AS_STRING(item), n);
             p += n;
             if (i < seqlen - 1) {
                     memcpy(p, sep, seplen);
                     p += seplen;
             }
     }

The Unicode join has the same problem

class Spam(list): ... def getitem(self, i): ... print "Asking for", i ... if i == 0: return "zero" ... if i == 1: return u"one" ... raise IndexError, i ... "".join(Spam()) ''

While if my class is not derived from list, everything is copacetic.

class Spam: ... def getitem(self, i): ... print "Asking for", i ... if i == 0: return "zero" ... if i == 1: return u"one" ... raise IndexError, i ... "".join(Spam()) Asking for 0 Asking for 1 Asking for 2 u'zeroone'

Ditto for deriving from object.

class Spam(object): ... def getitem(self, i): ... print "Asking for", i ... if i == 0: return "zero" ... if i == 1: return "one" ... raise IndexError, i ... "".join(Spam()) Asking for 0 Asking for 1 Asking for 2 'zeroone'

                Andrew
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