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remove multi-argument form of PythonObject::Reset()
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Authored by lawrence_danna on Oct 18 2019, 9:36 PM.

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Summary

With this patch, only the no-argument form of Reset() remains in
PythonDataObjects. It also deletes PythonExceptionState in favor of
PythonException, because the only call-site of PythonExceptionState was
also using Reset, so I cleaned up both while I was there.

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No fudnamental issues with this patch (I'm ignoring the CStringArg topic here). I do think that it would be nice to have some more unit tests for the new APIs you're introducing (or elevating to API status). I'm mainly thinking of the PythonScript stuff (a test where we evaluate the script successfully) and the runString functions.

lldb/include/lldb/Interpreter/ScriptInterpreter.h
68–70

I should've mentioned this earlier, but llvm style is to generally use // comments https://llvm.org/docs/CodingStandards.html#comment-formatting.,

lldb/source/Plugins/ScriptInterpreter/Python/PythonDataObjects.cpp
261–264

Do I understand correctly that the idea is to eventually replace these functions with constructor calls too?

1057

I just realized I don't actually know what this means. Is it that the object takes the GIL internally? Or that one must have the GIL taken before he starts to interact with it? Maybe it'd be better to clarify this in the class description and just delete these comments.

1064–1065

maybe just return toString(backtrace.takeError()) here?

1512

Use early return here (if (valid) return Success;)

1516–1517

if (Error error = ...)

lldb/source/Plugins/ScriptInterpreter/Python/PythonDataObjects.h
331

Maybe it's time to move the entire PythonObject hierarchy into the python namespace? That would be consistent with some of the newer lldb plugins, which have all of their code inside a sub-namespace of lldb_private..

778

I'm wondering if there's a way to avoid passing in the function name argument. Perhaps if the callable is returned as a result of the script ("def foo: ...; return foo")? WDYT?

789–790

if (llvm::Error e = ...)

lldb/source/Plugins/ScriptInterpreter/Python/ScriptInterpreterPython.cpp
1169–1180

Would something like this also work?

llvm::Error error = handleErrors(return_value.takeError(), [](PythonException &E) {
  llvm::Error str = makeStringError(E.ReadBacktrace());
  if (!options.GetMaskoutErrors)
    E.Restore();
  return str;
});
return std::move(error);
1986–1987

If doesn't look like this Reset call is really needed here..

lldb/unittests/ScriptInterpreter/Python/PythonDataObjectsTests.cpp
789–802

Maybe:

EXPECT_THAT_EXPECTED(foo(),
  llvm::Failed<PythonException>(testing::Property(&PythonException::ReadBacktrace,
     testing::ContainsRegex(...) )) ));
lawrence_danna marked an inline comment as done.Oct 19 2019, 10:33 AM
lawrence_danna added inline comments.
lldb/source/Plugins/ScriptInterpreter/Python/PythonDataObjects.cpp
1057

Almost everything in PythonDataObjects requires you to call it with the GIL already locked. The only things that don't are the File methods because they're called by things that don't know anything about python.

Normally when I need to do something like this I would use dispatch_once, or whatever the LLVM version of that is, so you avoid static initializers, but also initialize the thing in a thread-safe way.

But in this case we already know that this function can only be called by a thread that has the GIL, so it's safe to just initialize a global variable without further synchronization.

lawrence_danna marked 16 inline comments as done.

fixes

lldb/source/Plugins/ScriptInterpreter/Python/PythonDataObjects.cpp
261–264

yea

lldb/source/Plugins/ScriptInterpreter/Python/PythonDataObjects.h
778

I can't use return, but i can have the scripts put their function in a well-known output variable.

789–790

Is that style considered normative?

I have a strong preference against putting function calls that are being run for their side effects inside an if.

lldb/unittests/ScriptInterpreter/Python/PythonDataObjectsTests.cpp
789–802

that doesn't seem to support multiple regexes, and is doing it 5 times really any more clear than just doing it manually?

I'm at the airport, so I haven't had a chance to look over the full set of changes you made, but here's my responses to your comments.

lldb/source/Plugins/ScriptInterpreter/Python/PythonDataObjects.h
778

Yea, I like that. Maybe instead of assigning the defined function to a well-known some variable, we could just use that name in the def declaration already? Also, aren't names starting with a single underscore considered "private" in python? Maybe it could just be "function" (or "main", or "script_main", ...)

789–790

I didn't find any mention of that in the official style guide, but i think there's a lot of informal consensus about that. I've seen a lot of reviewers asking for that style, and I've never seen anyone be asked to change it back.
The main advantage of that is that it reduces the scope of the Error object, which is particularly important given that Error objects tend to do funny things when being destroyed.

lldb/unittests/ScriptInterpreter/Python/PythonDataObjectsTests.cpp
789–802

I was thinking you would just do a ContainsRegex("line 3.*line 5.*line 7...") If you want to emulate the current behavior precisely, you could do a MatchesAll(HasSubstr("line 3"), HasSubstr("line 5"), ...).

The main advantage I see here is in the error message that you get when this thing fails. In the current setup, you'll get " expected 0xffff != 0xffff, got 0xffff == 0xffff". This expression will end up producing the full error string as the "obtained" value, which will hopefully give you some clue about what went wrong. Which is particuarly useful if the failure happens only on some bot, whose configuration you can't easily reproduce.

lawrence_danna marked 3 inline comments as done.

fixes

labath added inline comments.Oct 21 2019, 6:31 AM
lldb/scripts/Python/python-extensions.swig
683–686 ↗(On Diff #225800)

You don't have to do this if you don't want, but I couldn't help noticing that the "else" branch is completely unnecessary in all of these scriptlets.

lldb/scripts/Python/python-typemaps.swig
4 ↗(On Diff #225800)

Could you delete these empty lines too. You don't have to delete absolutely all of them, if you think they're useful for better visual separation, but I definitely don't think empty lines at the very beginning of a block are useful.

lldb/scripts/Python/python-wrapper.swig
193–194 ↗(On Diff #225800)

These even have a double empty line now. :)

lldb/source/Plugins/ScriptInterpreter/Python/PythonDataObjects.cpp
261–264

awesome.

1057

Ok, thanks for explaining. The new comment is much clearer now (though I am not sure if it's even needed TBH).

1067–1069

This won't work. The reason why the Twine class is so efficient, is that it establishes links between various temporary objects. Those temporaries will be destroyed when the enclosing full expression is evaluated. This means it's never safe to store Twine objects as local variables.

1076

How likely are we to get another exception while trying to retrieve the backtrace? I am wondering if all this complexity is worth it...

lldb/source/Plugins/ScriptInterpreter/Python/ScriptInterpreterPythonImpl.h
26–27

No using declarations in headers.

lldb/unittests/ScriptInterpreter/Python/PythonDataObjectsTests.cpp
789–792

EXPECT_THAT_EXPECTED(As<long long>(factorial(5ll)), llvm::HasValue(120))

841–842

HasValue(foobarbaz)

lawrence_danna marked 14 inline comments as done.

fixes

lldb/scripts/Python/python-extensions.swig
683–686 ↗(On Diff #225800)

good point.

lldb/source/Plugins/ScriptInterpreter/Python/PythonDataObjects.cpp
1076

It's actually not that unusual that someone writes a __str__ method for their exception which is broken and also throws an exception.

1076

actually, it looks like traceback.print_exception already takes care of that situation, so you're right it's not very useful.

lldb/source/Plugins/ScriptInterpreter/Python/ScriptInterpreterPythonImpl.h
26–27

even an "Impl" header?

labath accepted this revision.Oct 21 2019, 1:33 PM
labath added inline comments.
lldb/scripts/Python/python-wrapper.swig
226 ↗(On Diff #225942)

There are empty lines from this point on in this file. Before they made sense because they were separating the using directive from the actual code, but now they've just become useless empty lines at the start of a block. Please delete them.

lldb/source/Plugins/ScriptInterpreter/Python/ScriptInterpreterPythonImpl.h
26–27

Nope. The "impl" here comes from the class name, but this is still a header like any other. Theoretically you could also put everything declared in this header into the python namespace, but otoh we have to stop somewhere, and this patch has gotten quite big already.

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Oct 21 2019, 1:33 PM
lawrence_danna marked 2 inline comments as done.Oct 21 2019, 3:39 PM

removed blank lines from python-wrapper.swig

This revision was automatically updated to reflect the committed changes.
lldb/unittests/ScriptInterpreter/Python/PythonDataObjectsTests.cpp