Re: [Python-Dev] Possible wrong behavior of the dict?

2015年3月17日 12:53:09 -0700

On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 3:46 PM Zaur Shibzukhov <[email protected]> wrote:
> So in such cases it should not subclassed `dict`, but
> `collections.MutableMapping`, for example?
>
Yes (see the comment at
https://hg.python.org/cpython/file/22a0c925a7c2/Objects/dictobject.c#l2003
).
-Brett
>
> ---
> *Zaur Shibzukhov*
>
>
> 2015年03月17日 22:38 GMT+03:00 Brett Cannon <[email protected]>:
>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 3:29 PM Zaur Shibzukhov <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Yes... But I expected that dict constructor will use `__getitem__` or
>>> `items` method of MyDict instance in order to retrieve items of the MyDict
>>> instance during construction of the dict instance... Instead it interpreted
>>> MyDict instance as the dict instance during construction of new dict.This
>>> exactly caused my confusion.
>>>
>>
>> It's because you subclassed dict. Copying is optimized to skip over using
>> the methods you listed when the object is a dict and so we know the
>> structure of the object at the C level. You can look at
>> https://hg.python.org/cpython/file/22a0c925a7c2/Objects/dictobject.c#l1997
>> to see the actual code.
>>
>> -Brett
>>
>>
>>>
>>> ---
>>> *Zaur Shibzukhov*
>>>
>>>
>>> 2015年03月17日 22:12 GMT+03:00 Brett Cannon <[email protected]>:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 3:05 PM Zaur Shibzukhov <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hello!
>>>>>
>>>>> In order to explain, let define subclass of dict:
>>>>>
>>>>> class Pair:
>>>>> def __init__(self, key, val):
>>>>> self.key = key
>>>>> self.val = val
>>>>>
>>>>> class MyDict(dict):
>>>>> #
>>>>> def __init__(self, *args, **kwds):
>>>>> if len(args) > 1:
>>>>> raise TypeError('Expected at most 1 arguments, but got %d'
>>>>> % len(args))
>>>>>
>>>>> for key, val in args[0]:
>>>>> self[key] = val
>>>>>
>>>>> for key, val in kwds.items():
>>>>> self[key] = val
>>>>>
>>>>> def __getitem__(self, key):
>>>>> pair = dict.__getitem__(key)
>>>>> return pair.value
>>>>>
>>>>> def __setitem__(self, key, val):
>>>>> if key in self:
>>>>> pair = dict.__getitem__(key)
>>>>> pair.value = value
>>>>> else:
>>>>> pair = Pair(key, val)
>>>>> dict.__setitem__(self, key, pair)
>>>>>
>>>>> def values(self):
>>>>> for key in self:
>>>>> p = dict.__getitem__(self, key)
>>>>> yield p.value
>>>>>
>>>>> def items(self):
>>>>> for key, p in dict.__iter__(self):
>>>>> yield p.key, p.value
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> The simple test give me strange result:
>>>>>
>>>>> >>> d = MyDict([('a', 1), ('b', 2), ('c', 3)])
>>>>> >>> dict(d)
>>>>> {'a': <__main__.Pair at 0x104ca9e48>,
>>>>> 'b': <__main__.Pair at 0x104ca9e80>,
>>>>> 'c': <__main__.Pair at 0x104ca9eb8>}
>>>>>
>>>>> instead of {'a':1, 'b':2, 'c':3}.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Is this right behavior of the dict?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Yes because in your __setitem__ call you are storing the value as the
>>>> Pair. So when dict prints its repr it prints the key and value, and in this
>>>> case the value is a Pair.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>
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