[Python-Dev] PEP 590: vectorcall without tp_call (original) (raw)

Petr Viktorin encukou at gmail.com
Wed May 29 09:29:35 EDT 2019

On 5/29/19 2:25 PM, Jeroen Demeyer wrote:

Hello,

I have one implementation question about vectorcall which is not specified in PEP 590: what should happen if a type implements vectorcall (i.e. PyTPFLAGSHAVEVECTORCALL is set) but doesn't set tpcall (i.e. tpcall == NULL)? I see the following possibilities: 1. Ignore this problem/assume that it won't happen. This would be bad, since callable(obj) would be False even though obj() would succeed. 2. Raise SystemError. 3. Automatically set tpcall to PyVectorcallCall. I would vote for 3 since it's the most user-friendly option. There is also no way how it could be wrong: it ensures that tpcall and vectorcall are consistent.

That sounds like a good idea for PyType_FromSpec.

For static types I either wouldn't bother at all, or only check in debug builds and fail with Py_FatalError.

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