[Python-Dev] [Python-3000] Betas today - I hope (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Fri Jun 13 10:56:01 CEST 2008

Georg Brandl wrote:

Nick Coghlan schrieb:

2. Method lookup MAY bypass getattribute, shadowing the attribute in the instance dictionary MAY have ill effects. (slots such as enter and exit that are looked up via normal attribute lookup in CPython will fit into this category) I would argue that the enter and exit behavior should be changed too. The reason for the current behavior is this: 2 0 LOADGLOBAL 0 (a) 3 DUPTOP 4 LOADATTR 1 (exit) 7 STOREFAST 0 ([1]) 10 LOADATTR 2 (enter) 13 CALLFUNCTION 0 16 STOREFAST 1 ([2]) 19 SETUPFINALLY 18 (to 40) IOW, when "with" is compiled, the attributes are retrieved using bytecode. It wouldn't be hard to have a WITHSETUP opcode (along with the already existing WITHCLEANUP) that would make the bytecode read like: 2 0 LOADGLOBAL 0 (a) 3 WITHSETUP 0 ([1]) 6 STOREFAST 1 ([2]) 9 SETUPFINALLY 18 (to 40)

No argument here - the PEP 343 implementation is the way it is mainly because it involved the least messing around with the performance-sensitive ceval loop.

That said, the with statement implementation is already a bit different in 2.6/3.0 (it moves things around on the stack so it can avoid the STORE_FAST/LOAD_FAST/DELETE_FAST operations):

def f(): with a: pass

Python 2.5 disassembly: 2 0 LOAD_GLOBAL 0 (a) 3 DUP_TOP 4 LOAD_ATTR 1 (exit) 7 STORE_FAST 0 ([1]) 10 LOAD_ATTR 2 (enter) 13 CALL_FUNCTION 0 16 POP_TOP 17 SETUP_FINALLY 4 (to 24) 20 POP_BLOCK 21 LOAD_CONST 0 (None) >> 24 LOAD_FAST 0 ([1]) 27 DELETE_FAST 0 (_[1]) 30 WITH_CLEANUP 31 END_FINALLY

Python 2.6 disassembly: 2 0 LOAD_GLOBAL 0 (a) 3 DUP_TOP 4 LOAD_ATTR 1 (exit) 7 ROT_TWO 8 LOAD_ATTR 2 (enter) 11 CALL_FUNCTION 0 14 POP_TOP 15 SETUP_FINALLY 4 (to 22) 18 POP_BLOCK 19 LOAD_CONST 0 (None) >> 22 WITH_CLEANUP 23 END_FINALLY

Cheers, Nick.

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