We're no longer using _Py_IDENTIFIER() (or _Py_static_string()) in any core CPython code. It is still used in a number of non-builtin stdlib modules.
The replacement is: PyUnicodeObject (not pointer) fields under _PyRuntimeState, statically initialized as part of _PyRuntime. A new _Py_GET_GLOBAL_IDENTIFIER() macro facilitates lookup of the fields (along with _Py_GET_GLOBAL_STRING() for non-identifier strings).
https://bugs.python.org/issue46541#msg411799 explains the rationale for this change.
The core of the change is in:
* (new) Include/internal/pycore_global_strings.h - the declarations for the global strings, along with the macros
* Include/internal/pycore_runtime_init.h - added the static initializers for the global strings
* Include/internal/pycore_global_objects.h - where the struct in pycore_global_strings.h is hooked into _PyRuntimeState
* Tools/scripts/generate_global_objects.py - added generation of the global string declarations and static initializers
I've also added a --check flag to generate_global_objects.py (along with make check-global-objects) to check for unused global strings. That check is added to the PR CI config.
The remainder of this change updates the core code to use _Py_GET_GLOBAL_IDENTIFIER() instead of _Py_IDENTIFIER() and the related _Py*Id functions (likewise for _Py_GET_GLOBAL_STRING() instead of _Py_static_string()). This includes adding a few functions where there wasn't already an alternative to _Py*Id(), replacing the _Py_Identifier * parameter with PyObject *.
The following are not changed (yet):
* stop using _Py_IDENTIFIER() in the stdlib modules
* (maybe) get rid of _Py_IDENTIFIER(), etc. entirely -- this may not be doable as at least one package on PyPI using this (private) API
* (maybe) intern the strings during runtime init
https://bugs.python.org/issue46541
* Move _PyObject_CallNoArgs() to pycore_call.h (internal C API).
* _ssl, _sqlite and _testcapi extensions now call the public
PyObject_CallNoArgs() function, rather than _PyObject_CallNoArgs().
* _lsprof extension is now built with Py_BUILD_CORE_MODULE macro
defined to get access to internal _PyObject_CallNoArgs().
Fix typo in the private _PyObject_CallNoArg() function name: rename
it to _PyObject_CallNoArgs() to be consistent with the public
function PyObject_CallNoArgs().
PyModuleDef_Init() no longer tries to make PyModule_Type type: it's
already done by _PyTypes_Init() at Python startup. Replace
PyType_Ready() call with an assertion.
While working on another issue, I noticed two minor nits in the C implementation of the module object. Both are related to getting a module's name.
First, the C function module_dir() (module.__dir__) starts by ensuring the module dict is valid. If the module dict is invalid, it wants to format an exception using the name of the module, which it gets from PyModule_GetName(). However, PyModule_GetName() gets the name of the module from the dict. So getting the name in this circumstance will never succeed.
When module_dir() wants to format the error but can't get the name, it knows that PyModule_GetName() must have already raised an exception. So it leaves that exception alone and returns an error. The end result is that the exception raised here is kind of useless and misleading: dir(module) on a module with no __dict__ raises SystemError("nameless module"). I changed the code to actually raise the exception it wanted to raise, just without a real module name: TypeError("<module>.__dict__ is not a dictionary"). This seems more useful, and would do a better job putting the programmer who encountered this on the right track of figuring out what was going on.
Second, the C API function PyModule_GetNameObject() checks to see if the module has a dict. If m->md_dict is not NULL, it calls _PyDict_GetItemIdWithError(). However, it's possible for m->md_dict to be None. And if you call _PyDict_GetItemIdWithError(Py_None, ...) it will *crash*.
Unfortunately, this crash was due to my own bug in the other branch. Fixing my code made the crash go away. I assert that this is still possible at the API level.
The fix is easy: add a PyDict_Check() to PyModule_GetNameObject().
Unfortunately, I don't know how to add a unit test for this. Having changed module_dir() above, I can't find any other interfaces callable from Python that eventually call PyModule_GetNameObject(). So I don't know how to trick the runtime into reproducing this error.
Since both these changes are minor--each entails only a small edit to only one line--I didn't bother with a news item.
Change class and module objects to lazy-create empty annotations dicts on demand. The annotations dicts are stored in the object's `__dict__` for backwards compatibility.
Add pycore_moduleobject.h internal header file with static inline
functions to access module members:
* _PyModule_GetDict()
* _PyModule_GetDef()
* _PyModule_GetState()
These functions don't check at runtime if their argument has a valid
type and can be inlined even if Python is not built with LTO.
_PyType_GetModuleByDef() uses _PyModule_GetDef().
Replace PyModule_GetState() with _PyModule_GetState() in the
extension modules, considered as performance sensitive:
* _abc
* _functools
* _operator
* _pickle
* _queue
* _random
* _sre
* _struct
* _thread
* _winapi
* array
* posix
The following extensions are now built with the Py_BUILD_CORE_MODULE
macro defined, to be able to use the internal pycore_moduleobject.h
header: _abc, array, _operator, _queue, _sre, _struct.
The Py_FatalError() function and the faulthandler module now dump the
list of extension modules on a fatal error.
Add _Py_DumpExtensionModules() and _PyModule_IsExtension() internal
functions.
No longer use deprecated aliases to functions:
* Replace PyMem_MALLOC() with PyMem_Malloc()
* Replace PyMem_REALLOC() with PyMem_Realloc()
* Replace PyMem_FREE() with PyMem_Free()
* Replace PyMem_Del() with PyMem_Free()
* Replace PyMem_DEL() with PyMem_Free()
Modify also the PyMem_DEL() macro to use directly PyMem_Free().
These functions are considered not safe because they suppress all internal errors
and can return wrong result. PyDict_GetItemString and _PyDict_GetItemId can
also silence current exception in rare cases.
Remove no longer used _PyDict_GetItemId.
Add _PyDict_ContainsId and rename _PyDict_Contains into
_PyDict_Contains_KnownHash.
Rename _PyInterpreterState_GET_UNSAFE() to _PyInterpreterState_GET()
for consistency with _PyThreadState_GET() and to have a shorter name
(help to fit into 80 columns).
Add also "assert(tstate != NULL);" to the function.
Don't access PyInterpreterState.config member directly anymore, but
use new functions:
* _PyInterpreterState_GetConfig()
* _PyInterpreterState_SetConfig()
* _Py_GetConfig()
Extension modules: m_traverse, m_clear and m_free functions of
PyModuleDef are no longer called if the module state was requested
but is not allocated yet. This is the case immediately after the
module is created and before the module is executed (Py_mod_exec
function). More precisely, these functions are not called if m_size is
greater than 0 and the module state (as returned by
PyModule_GetState()) is NULL.
Extension modules without module state (m_size <= 0) are not affected.
Co-Authored-By: Petr Viktorin <encukou@gmail.com>
Replace _PyInterpreterState_Get() function call with
_PyInterpreterState_GET_UNSAFE() macro which is more efficient but
don't check if tstate or interp is NULL.
_Py_GetConfigsAsDict() now uses _PyThreadState_GET().
The bulk of this patch was generated automatically with:
for name in \
PyObject_Vectorcall \
Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VECTORCALL \
PyObject_VectorcallMethod \
PyVectorcall_Function \
PyObject_CallOneArg \
PyObject_CallMethodNoArgs \
PyObject_CallMethodOneArg \
;
do
echo $name
git grep -lwz _$name | xargs -0 sed -i "s/\b_$name\b/$name/g"
done
old=_PyObject_FastCallDict
new=PyObject_VectorcallDict
git grep -lwz $old | xargs -0 sed -i "s/\b$old\b/$new/g"
and then cleaned up:
- Revert changes to in docs & news
- Revert changes to backcompat defines in headers
- Nudge misaligned comments
If PyModule_Create2() is called when the Python import machinery is
not initialized, it now raises a SystemError and returns NULL,
instead of calling Py_FatalError() which aborts the process.
The caller must be prepared to handle NULL anyway.
It is similar to the more general code in the gc module, but
here we know the name of the module.
https://bugs.python.org/issue33714
Automerge-Triggered-By: @encukou
Multi-phase initialized modules allow m_traverse to be called while the
module is still being initialized, so module authors may need to account
for that.
A bunch of code currently uses PyInterpreterState.modules directly instead of PyImport_GetModuleDict(). This complicates efforts to make changes relative to sys.modules. This patch switches to using PyImport_GetModuleDict() uniformly. Also, a number of related uses of sys.modules are updated for uniformity for the same reason.
Note that this code was already reviewed and merged as part of #1638. I reverted that and am now splitting it up into more focused parts.
PR #1638, for bpo-28411, causes problems in some (very) edge cases. Until that gets sorted out, we're reverting the merge. PR #3506, a fix on top of #1638, is also getting reverted.
* group the (stateful) runtime globals into various topical structs
* consolidate the topical structs under a single top-level _PyRuntimeState struct
* add a check-c-globals.py script that helps identify runtime globals
Other globals are excluded (see globals.txt and check-c-globals.py).
