Implement dictionary indexing by trait. #1187
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| /// Implement trait for the str type, so that we can use strings | ||
| /// to index dictionaries. | ||
| impl DictKey for String { |
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| impl DictKey for String { | |
| impl DictKey for str { |
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I tried this, without success. I get this compilation error:
--> vm/src/dictdatatype.rs:363:24
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363 | let val = dict.get(&vm, "x").unwrap().unwrap();
| ^^^ doesn't have a size known at compile-time
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Oh, I think it's because it's trying to make a double-fat pointer, with both a vtable and a slice length, and it doesn't like that.
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| fn do_eq(&self, vm: &VirtualMachine, other_key: &PyObjectRef) -> PyResult<bool> { | ||
| // Fall back to PyString implementation. | ||
| let s = vm.new_str(self.to_string()); | ||
| s.do_eq(vm, other_key) |
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I feel like we could have a more efficient eq implementation here than reallocating the string.
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Absolutely, this involves checking the specific python type to be of PyStringRef, and then doing a string compare. I suspect this happens only in a couple of cases, after the first hash compare is a success. I will implement this though, since I think it is a good idea.
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This add support for indexing the dictionary by string. So instead of creating a PyStringRef, we now can use rust's String type to index a dict.