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Title: Clean up Python 3.4 API additions in the dis module
Type: Stage: resolved
Components: Versions: Python 3.4
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Status: closed Resolution: fixed
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Assigned To: ncoghlan Nosy List: larry, ncoghlan, python-dev, rfk, rhettinger
Priority: release blocker Keywords: patch

Created on 2013-10-24 13:44 by ncoghlan, last changed 2022-04-11 14:57 by admin. This issue is now closed.

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issue19378_dis_module_fixes.diff ncoghlan, 2013-11-03 15:03 Assorted fixes for the dis module review
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msg201131 - (view) Author: Nick Coghlan (ncoghlan) * (Python committer) Date: 2013-10-24 13:44
The "line_offset" parameter in dis.get_instructions is the line number of the first line in the source file: http://docs.python.org/dev/library/dis#dis.get_instructions

Calling this an offset is a little confusing, since "offset" in the dis docs almost always refers to an instruction offset. Issue 17916 is likely to make this worse, since that will probably involve new "last_offset" and "current_offset" parameters to other APIs.

Renaming the parameter to "first_line" (since it sets the line number reported for the first line in the code object when iterating) should help make this less confusing.
msg202028 - (view) Author: Nick Coghlan (ncoghlan) * (Python committer) Date: 2013-11-03 15:03
While working on this, I noticed a number of other issues with the dis API additions for Python 3.4 from issue 11816. Specifically:

- the file output redirection API didn't work in some cases that resulted in calls to other disassembly functions
- Bytecode.show_info() replicates a bad module level API that shouldn't be perpetuated
- Bytecode.display_code() is better converted to a dis() method that returns a string rather than writing directly to an output stream
msg202053 - (view) Author: Larry Hastings (larry) * (Python committer) Date: 2013-11-03 19:38
Would this be a good time for me to ask about publishing the stack effect info?  I had to write my own parallel implementation of it for my assembler, so I found it irritating that Python doesn't provide it.
msg202076 - (view) Author: Nick Coghlan (ncoghlan) * (Python committer) Date: 2013-11-04 02:52
I think it's a good idea in principle, but unrelated to this patch :)

This one started as reworking line_offset as a more intuitive "first_line" parameter, and then testing and documenting that change proceeded to reveal a number of other issues with the 3.4 API additions :P
msg202077 - (view) Author: Nick Coghlan (ncoghlan) * (Python committer) Date: 2013-11-04 02:56
There was another change implemented as part of this: trailing whitespace is now stripped from the lines emitted by the disassembler, which made it possible to simplify the tests a bit (since they no longer have to strip that whitespace themselves, they can just do normal string comparisons)

I rediscovered this existing issue, since the new more comprehensive tests for correct handling of the file parameter didn't have the extra operations to strip the trailing whitespace from each line. Rather than adding it, I just fixed the dissassembler to avoid emitting it in the first place (that was a lot easier now that Instruction._disassemble was the sole place responsible for emitting each line)
msg202261 - (view) Author: Roundup Robot (python-dev) (Python triager) Date: 2013-11-06 12:08
New changeset ce8dd299cdc4 by Nick Coghlan in branch 'default':
Close #19378: address flaws in the new dis module APIs
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/ce8dd299cdc4
History
Date User Action Args
2022-04-11 14:57:52adminsetgithub: 63577
2013-11-06 12:08:50python-devsetstatus: open -> closed

nosy: + python-dev
messages: + msg202261

resolution: fixed
stage: resolved
2013-11-04 13:35:23ncoghlansetassignee: ncoghlan
2013-11-04 02:56:55ncoghlansetmessages: + msg202077
2013-11-04 02:52:24ncoghlansetmessages: + msg202076
2013-11-03 19:38:29larrysetmessages: + msg202053
2013-11-03 15:03:32ncoghlansetfiles: + issue19378_dis_module_fixes.diff
priority: normal -> release blocker


title: Rename "line_offset" parameter in dis.get_instructions to "first_line" -> Clean up Python 3.4 API additions in the dis module
keywords: + patch
nosy: + rhettinger, rfk, larry
versions: + Python 3.4
messages: + msg202028
2013-10-24 13:48:06ncoghlanlinkissue17916 dependencies
2013-10-24 13:44:36ncoghlancreate