I can only say that currently, I am not confident to expose such an API, at least for co_positions, as the internal implementation is very likely to heavily change and we want to have the possibility of changing it between patch versions if required (to address bugs and other things like that).
On Wed, 9 Feb 2022 at 17:38, Stefan Behnel <stefan...@behnel.de> wrote: > Pablo Galindo Salgado schrieb am 09.02.22 um 17:40: > >> Should there be a getter/setter for co_positions? > > > > We consider the representation of co_postions private > > Yes, and that's the issue. > > > > so we don't want (for now) to ad > > getters/setters. If you want to get the position of a instruction, you > can > > use PyCode_Addr2Location > > What Cython needs is the other direction. How can we provide the current > source position range for a given piece of code to an exception? > > As it stands, the way to do this is to copy the implementation details of > CPython into Cython in order to let it expose the specific data structures > that CPython uses for its internal representation of code positions. > > I would prefer using an API instead that allows exposing this mapping > directly to CPython's traceback handling, rather than having to emulate > byte code positions. While that would probably be quite doable, it's far > from a nice interface for something that is not based on byte code. > > And that's not just a Cython issue. The same applies to Domain Specific > Languages or other programming languages that integrate with Python and > want to show users code positions for their source code. > > Stefan > > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ > Message archived at > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/VQSWX6MFKIA3RYPSX7O6RTVC422LTJH4/ > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ >
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