On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 12:54:12PM +1000, Chris Angelico wrote:
> A class + decorator gets so almost there that it might be possible
> with just a tiny bit of language support. What if there could be a way
> to change a function's __globals__? Currently that's readonly
> according to funcobject.c, but by hacking that flag out, I can create
> the following example:
That's one of the problems I hit in my experiments.
I don't think you need to hack funcobject.c if you are willing to
disassemble the function object (all of the parts are accessible as
attributes) and re-assemble it into a new function using the
types.FunctionType constructor.
> Due to CPython limitations, the new __globals__ MUST be a plain dict
> (not the mappingproxy that cls.__dict__ is, and not a ChainMap),
In my experiments, I think I overcame that by subclassing ChainMap and
dict:
class MyChainMap(ChainMap, dict):
pass
was, I think, enough to fool the function constructor. Don't quote me
on this, it's been a while and I don't remember all the details. But I'm
pretty sure nothing segfaulted, I'd remember it if it did :-)
I'm pretty sure that this is doable, at least well enough to get a
working prototype that people can experiment with. At worst, we might
need AST or bytecode hacking to get the functions defined inside the
namespace to work correctly.
> but
> this is extremely close to what could actually be quite useful. Also,
> since the function objects get mutated by the decorator, calling a
> function during the namespace's construction will have the wrong
> behaviour.
Yes, there's that too. But then the namespace doesn't actually exist at
that point, so this is rather analogous to what happens when you call a
function inside a class during class construction. I can live with that
limitation.
--
Steven
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