SF bug 1065388: calendar day/month name lookup too slow

__getitem__() methods:  compute only the new spellings needed to satisfy
the given indexing object.  This is purely an optimization (it should
have no effect on visible semantics).

Lib/calendar.py

@@ -28,27 +28,37 @@ mdays = [0, 31, 28, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31]
 # fresh on each call, in case the user changes locale between calls.
 
 class _localized_month:
+
+    _months = [datetime.date(2001, i+1, 1).strftime for i in range(12)]
+    _months.insert(0, lambda x: "")
+
     def __init__(self, format):
         self.format = format
 
     def __getitem__(self, i):
-        data = [datetime.date(2001, j, 1).strftime(self.format)
-                     for j in range(1, 13)]
-        data.insert(0, "")
-        return data[i]
+        funcs = self._months[i]
+        if isinstance(i, slice):
+            return [f(self.format) for f in funcs]
+        else:
+            return funcs(self.format)
 
     def __len__(self):
         return 13
 
 class _localized_day:
+
+    # January 1, 2001, was a Monday.
+    _days = [datetime.date(2001, 1, i+1).strftime for i in range(7)]
+
     def __init__(self, format):
         self.format = format
 
     def __getitem__(self, i):
-        # January 1, 2001, was a Monday.
-        data = [datetime.date(2001, 1, j+1).strftime(self.format)
-                     for j in range(7)]
-        return data[i]
+        funcs = self._days[i]
+        if isinstance(i, slice):
+            return [f(self.format) for f in funcs]
+        else:
+            return funcs(self.format)
 
     def __len__(self):
         return 7

Lib/test/test_calendar.py

@@ -37,10 +37,9 @@ class CalendarTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
             self.assertEqual(len(value), 7)
             self.assertEqual(len(value[:]), 7)
             # ensure they're all unique
-            d = {}
-            for v in value:
-                d[v] = 1
-            self.assertEqual(len(d), 7)
+            self.assertEqual(len(set(value)), 7)
+            # verify it "acts like a sequence" in two forms of iteration
+            self.assertEqual(value[::-1], list(reversed(value)))
 
     def test_months(self):
         for attr in "month_name", "month_abbr":
@@ -49,10 +48,9 @@ class CalendarTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
             self.assertEqual(len(value[:]), 13)
             self.assertEqual(value[0], "")
             # ensure they're all unique
-            d = {}
-            for v in value:
-                d[v] = 1
-            self.assertEqual(len(d), 13)
+            self.assertEqual(len(set(value)), 13)
+            # verify it "acts like a sequence" in two forms of iteration
+            self.assertEqual(value[::-1], list(reversed(value)))
 
 
 class MonthCalendarTestCase(unittest.TestCase):

Misc/NEWS

@@ -32,6 +32,17 @@ Library
 - ``doctest``'s new support for adding ``pdb.set_trace()`` calls to
   doctests was broken in a dramatic but shallow way.  Fixed.
 
+- Bug 1065388:  ``calendar``'s ``day_name``, ``day_abbr``, ``month_name``,
+  and ``month_abbr`` attributes emulate sequences of locale-correct
+  spellings of month and day names.  Because the locale can change at
+  any time, the correct spelling is recomputed whenever one of these is
+  indexed.  In the worst case, the index may be a slice object, so these
+  recomputed every day or month name each time they were indexed.  This is
+  much slower than necessary in the usual case, when the index is just an
+  integer.  In that case, only the single spelling needed is recomputed
+  now; and, when the index is a slice object, only the spellings needed
+  by the slice are recomputed now.
+
 - Patch 1061679: Added ``__all__`` to pickletools.py.
 
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