Hi,
I'm trying to write a C extension which is a subclass of dict.
I want to do something like a setdefault() but with a single lookup.
Looking through the dictobject code, the three workhorse
routines lookdict, insertdict and dictresize are not available
directly for functions outside dictobject.c,
but I can get at lookdict through dict->ma_lookup().
So I use lookdict to get the PyDictEntry (call it ep) I'm looking for.
The comments for lookdict say ep is ready to be set... so I do that.
Then I check whether the dict needs to be resized--following the
nice example of PyDict_SetItem. But I can't call dictresize to finish
off the process.
Should I be using PyDict_SetItem directly? No... it does its own
lookup.
I don't want a second lookup! I already know which entry will be
filled.
So then I look at the code for setdefault and it also does
a double lookup for checking and setting an entry.
What subtle issue am I missing?
Why does setdefault do a double lookup?
More globally, why isn't dictresize available through the C-API?
If there isn't a reason to do a double lookup I have a patch for
setdefault,
but I thought I should ask here first.
Thanks!
Dan
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